Kartarpur in Jalandhar district was founded by Guru Arjan Dev Ji around 1594, and is distinct from the Kartarpur on the Ravi where Guru Nanak Dev Ji farmed.
Gurdwara Sri Thamm Sahib is there, named for a pillar, and the town was the site of one of Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji's four battles in 1635.
The Sodhi family descended from Dhirmal has held the Kartarpur birh here for nearly four centuries.
The town's modern trade is furniture. It has been a woodworking centre for generations, and its carved and inlaid furniture is sold across northern India.
A town founded by the fifth Guru, holding what may be the original manuscript of the Sikh scripture, is known in Punjab principally as a place to buy a bed.
The town was attacked and burned by Mughal forces in the 1630s, and the battle of Kartarpur in 1635 is one of the engagements fought in the lifetime of Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji.
The Kartarpuri birh held by the Sodhi family carries a date of 1604 and is claimed as the volume compiled by Guru Arjan Dev Ji at Amritsar. Access to it has been restricted for most of the last century and the examinations that have been permitted are few and are disputed.
The furniture trade employs a large part of the town and works mostly in sheesham. It is a cluster of small workshops rather than factories, supplying north Indian markets, and it has no connection to the town's history except that both are in the same place.