Sangrur was the capital of Jind state from 1827 until 1948. The rulers built a palace, a garden called Banasar Bagh with a baradari in it, a clock tower and a laid-out bazaar of eight gates. The town's plan is a state capital's plan and its size is a district town's, which is why the buildings sit oddly in it.
Sunam, in the district, is where Udham Singh was from. Longowal, also in the district, gave its name to Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, who signed the accord with Rajiv Gandhi on 24 July 1985 and was shot dead in a gurdwara at Sherpur on 20 August, twenty-seven days later. The accord's main provisions were not implemented.
The Sangrur belt has the deepest agrarian distress figures in Punjab, and the highest recorded farmer suicide rates in the state's own surveys.
Barnala was carved out of Sangrur in 2006 and Malerkotla in 2021. What is left is still one of the larger districts of the Malwa.
Banasar Bagh was the Jind state's garden and pleasure complex, and the state's baradari, offices and residences stand around the town.
Jind's territory was scattered in three separate blocks, which is what a Cis-Sutlej state's map generally looked like.
What a capital leaves when the state goes is a set of large buildings with no function. Sangrur's are used by the district administration, by schools, and by nobody.