Dhilwan Kalan is a village situated on Bathinda-Baja Khana-Faridkot main road approximately 5 km from Kotkapura in Faridkot district, India. The area of the village is approximately 2566 hectare and the population 9210. Some of the residents of this village, due to ancestral land inheritance, moved to village called Dhilwan Khurd near Sadik. Residents of this village are well-educated and settled in foreign countries. The region also facing serious agricultural and socio economic hardships after 1991. The population of this village is dominated by three main segments, Jat Sikh (Dhillon, Dhaliwal, Sidhu/Brar, Bhullar and Gill), Buttar Ramgharia, and Harijan. In addition, other segments of population represented as part of community are Sodhi, Khatri, Mahajan, Darji, Ramdasia, Bajigar and Boria (Punjab). History Dhilwan Kalan has historical importance in the Sikh Religion and Sikh History for standing with the 10th Sikh Guru's side during very difficult and testing times, while the Nawab of nearby town Kotkapura did not openly support Guru Gobind Singh Ji. Kalan is Persian language word which means Big. Guru Gobind Singh Ji, the 10th Guru of the Sikhs en route from Machhiwara, after staying at Dina and short stopover at various other places reached Kotkapura and asked the Nawab Kapura Brar for his fort to fight the pursuing Mughal Army. Nawab refused the fort to the Guru. After refusal from Kapura Brar Guru Gobind Singh Ji reached Dhilwan Kalan (at that time called Dhilwan Sodhian) where his relatives received him with great cordiality. At Dhilwan Kalan, one of the Prithi Chand's descendants, Kaul Sodhi, presented Guru Ji clothes. The Guru Ji took off his blue robe which he had been wearing since he left Machiwara, and tearing it piece by piece burned it in fire. The historic words that he is said to have uttered on this occasion are memorable: "I have torn the blue clothes which I wore, and with that the rule of the Turks and Pathans is at an end." Some historians think that Guru Ji said "Turks, Pathans and Kapuras". It is believed that Guru Gobind Singh Ji stayed couple of days at Dhilwan Kalan village in the house of Sodhi Kaul on his request. On Kaul's request, Guruji discarded his blue dress and changed to white dress. Descendants of Kaul Sodhi's family claim that Guru Ji gave a "topi" believed to be of the first Guru Nanak Dev Ji and a “chola" (cloak),