Phillaur is a town and a municipal council in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab. Phillaur is the railway junction on the border line of Ludhiana and Jalandhar Cantonment(older spellings: Jullundar). It was a junction for Lohian and Ferozepur. In pre-partition days, it was the main Timber market of Punjab Region. This town was named by a Sanghera Jut called Phul who named it earlier is Phulnagar. However the Naru Rajputs, sent by Rai Shahr, occupied this town when Shahr's son Ratan Pal left Mau and settled in Phillaur.