Government Senior Secondary School for Boys, Rahon

The oldest school in Punjab is in Rahon. The British founded the school in 1855, in an old fort building that marked the last border of "Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Lahore Durbar." A number of notable alumni include Mr. Balbir Singh (AIS), who retired as the Chief Secretary of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sardar Dilbagh Singh, who served as Air Chief Marshal, Durga Das, BR Chopra, and others. The school was administered by Zaildar Sansar Chand and later by Pandit Buta Ram, who served as Head Master from 1924 till 1958. Before being used as a Government Secondary School, it was the site of an old fort. Banda Singh Bahadur occupied the mounds of some old brick-kilns lying to the north-west in the city. They used this brick-debris as a garhi (a fortress) and, throwing lines of entrenchments round their camp, made ready for war. It was here that the Battle of Rahon (1710) was fought between Banda Singh Bahadur and Shamas Khan, the Mughal governor of Jalandhar. The fort that later stood on the site was eventually repurposed as the school building.