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Dulla Bhatti (Rai Abdullah Khan Bhatti)

The Punjabi folk hero of the Lohri songs: a Muslim Rajput zamindar of Pindi Bhattian whose grandfather Sandal (also called Bijli) and father Farid were executed for refusing Akbar's centralised land revenue, born to Ladhi months after his father's death, who rose against the revenue, robbed the imperial caravans on the Lahore to Kabul road and gave to the poor, rescued girls from being carried off and married them with dowries, and was hanged in Lahore in 1599. A grave at Miani Sahib is said to be his.

Sources: Dulla Bhatti, Wikipedia; There is an agrarian backstory to the legend of Dulla Bhatti (Down To Earth, 2023, excerpting Ishwar Dayal Gaur, Martyr as Bridegroom, 2008); Who is Dulla Bhatti, the Robin Hood of Punjab immortalised in the Lohri song? (The Quint); Dulla Bhatti and Lohri (Haroon Khalid, Dawn, 2018); Dulla Bhatti (Shafqat Tanvir Mirza, Dawn, 23 June 2006, archived by APNA) · see Dulla Bhatti (Rai Abdullah Khan Bhatti)'s web

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