Alamgir, near Ludhiana, is where the palanquin carrying Guru Gobind Singh Ji out of Machhiwara stopped. He mounted a horse here for the first time since Chamkaur, and the tradition holds that the Sikhs of the area assembled and the party became a body again rather than a fugitive.
Gurdwara Manji Sahib Alamgir stands there. The account attached to the site is that water was short and that the Guru shot an arrow into the ground and a spring came, and that the well there is called Tirsar for that reason.
The place matters because it is the point at which the flight stops and the Malwa campaign begins. From here the route runs through Raikot, Dina Kangar, where the Zafarnama was written, and on to Khidrana.
The Malwa villages that gave shelter on that route are marked with gurdwaras and most of them are small and not much visited.
The whole sequence, Chamkaur to Machhiwara to Alamgir to Dina to Khidrana, is about six weeks and about two hundred kilometres, and it can be driven in a day.
The account is that Guru Gobind Singh Ji rested here after Machhiwara and that the litter in which he had been carried was left at the place.
Gurdwara Manji Sahib Alamgir marks it, and a well associated with the stay is part of the site.
It is on the road out of Ludhiana toward Raikot, in country that is now urban edge. The whole route of that winter runs through places that look like nothing now.