Place · Folk · North India · Hafizabad district, Punjab, Pakistan

Pindi Bhattian

Also called: Pindi, Sandalwala

The town of the Bhatti Rajputs in the Sandal Bar between the Chenab and the Ravi, now in Hafizabad district of Pakistan's Punjab, 120 km from Lahore on the old road to Kabul; Dulla Bhatti's home, where the Dulle di Var is still sung at fairs and an old well is pointed out as his house.

Sources: Pindi Bhattian, Wikipedia; The fire we once shared: Lohri and the cultural memory of Lahore (Talha Shafiq, The Friday Times, 17 January 2026); There is an agrarian backstory to the legend of Dulla Bhatti (Down To Earth, 2023, excerpting Ishwar Dayal Gaur, Martyr as Bridegroom, 2008) · see Pindi Bhattian's web

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Pindi Bhattian home of

Dulla Bhatti (Rai Abdullah Khan Bhatti) (Mortal) Folk · The songs for Dulla Bhatti (Lohri)
His home and the seat of his family; the var is still sung there.

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The songs for Dulla Bhatti (Lohri)
Folk tale · 2 tellings

Cited

Pindi Bhattian, Wikipedia Encyclopedia
The fire we once shared: Lohri and the cultural memory of Lahore (Talha Shafiq, The Friday Times, 17 January 2026) Media
There is an agrarian backstory to the legend of Dulla Bhatti (Down To Earth, 2023, excerpting Ishwar Dayal Gaur, Martyr as Bridegroom, 2008) Scholarly