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Daulat Khan was the Nawab (a feudatory chief) of Sultanpur (also called Sultanpur Lodhi) which is an old town in Kapurthala district of the Punjab. This is the toen where Guru Nanak put up for several years before setting out on his travels on his Udasis to deliver his message.

He became governor of the Province of Lahore during the first quarter of the sixteenth century. During his stay in Sultanpur, Guru Nanak took up employment in the Nawab's provision stores. During that time there grew up a small sangat, holy fellowship of disciples in this town. This must have prospered well as Bhai Gurdas in his Varan (XI.21), called Sultanpur the "treasure of God's adoration."

Sultanpur Lodhi has several gurdwaras commemorating events connected with the life of Guru Nanak.