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{{Infobox person | |||
| name = Dulla Bhatti | |||
| other_names = Abdullah Bhatti | |||
| image = Dulla Bhatti (4067802963).jpg | |||
| imagesize = | |||
| alt = | |||
| caption = Buried at [[Miani Sahib Graveyard|Miani Sahib Qabristan (Graveyard)]] | |||
| known for = Rebelling and fighting against the [[Mughal emperor]] [[Akbar]]'s centralised land revenue scheme (lagaan) | |||
| birth_date = mid-16th century | |||
| birth_place = [[Pindi Bhattian]], [[Punjab]], [[Mughal Empire]]<br /><small>(modern day Pakistan)</small> | |||
| death_date = 1599 | |||
| death_place = [[Lahore]], [[Punjab]], [[Mughal Empire]]<br /><small>(modern day Pakistan)</small> | |||
}} | |||
'''Dulla Bhatti''' (popularly referred to as the '''"Son of Punjab"''' or '''"Robin Hood of Punjab"''', sometimes spelled '''Dulha Bhatti''' and also known as '''Abdullah Bhatti''') is a [[folk hero]] who supposedly came from the [[Punjab region]] of [[medieval India]] and led a revolt against [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] rule during the reign of the [[Mughal emperor]] [[Akbar]]. He is entirely absent from the recorded history of the time, and the only evidence of his existence comes from [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] folk songs.<ref name="SinghGaur2008">{{cite book|author1=Surinder Singh|author2=I. D. Gaur|title=Popular Literature and Pre-modern Societies in South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVA0JAzQJkYC&pg=PA89|year=2008|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-1358-7|pages=89–90}}</ref> | |||
The deeds of Bhatti are recounted in [[folklore]] and took the form of [[social bandit]]ry. According to Ishwar Dayal Gaur, although he was "the trendsetter in peasant insurgency in medieval Punjab", he remains "on the periphery of Punjab's historiography".{{sfnp|Gaur|2008|pp=27, 37, 38|ps=}}<ref name=Dawn/> | |||
== | == Early life == | ||
{{ | Dulla Bhati was a Muslim [[Rajput]] whose father was a local zamindar.<ref name=JP>{{Cite book|first=Ishwar|last=Dayal|title=Martyr as Bridegroom: A Folk Representation of Bhagat Singh|publisher=Anthem Press|year=2008|pages=37|isbn=9788190583503|quote=a Muslim Rajput, Dulla Bhatti, the son of local zamindar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OQ4CWDeKSxUC&q=dulla+bhatti+rajput&pg=PA37|access-date=2021-01-13}}</ref> Dulla Bhatti lived at [[Pindi Bhattian]] in [[Punjab]],{{sfnp|Ahsan|1996|p=120|ps=}} and came from a family of hereditary local rural chiefs of the [[zamindar]] class. Both his father, Farid, and his grandfather, variously called Bijli or Sandal,{{efn|Surinder Singh's analysis of regional folklore names Bhatti's grandfather as Sandal and suggests the possibility, given the influence that he had in the region, that the area of [[Sandal Bar]] is named after him.{{sfnp|Singh|2008|p=106|ps=}}}}<ref name=Dawn/> were executed for opposing the new and centralised land revenue collection scheme imposed by the [[Mughal emperor]] [[Akbar]]. Dulla was born to Ladhi four months after the death of his father.{{sfnp|Gaur|2008|pp=34, 37|ps=}}<ref name=Dawn>{{cite news|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1112454 |author=Mushtaq Soofi|title=Punjab Notes: Bar: forgotten glory of Punjab |date=13 June 2014|newspaper=Dawn (newspaper)|access-date=4 September 2020}}</ref> | ||
Coincidentally, Akbar's son, Shaikhu (later known as [[Jahangir]]), was born on the same day. Advised by his courtiers that Shaikhu's future bravery and success would be ensured if the child was fed by a Rajput woman, Akbar gave that responsibility to Ladhi despite her connection to a man who had rebelled against the Mughal throne. This decision appears to have its basis in [[realpolitik]]: Akbar perceived that Ladhi was resentful, that Bhatti might become the third generation of rebels and that Akbar's royal favour might offset this.{{sfnp|Gaur|2008|p=35|ps=}} | |||
A part of the royal patronage was that Bhatti attended school. Although, at that time, unaware of the fate of his ancestors, he refused to accept the strictures that were intended to mould him into a good citizen and objected to being a part of an establishment that was designed to produce elites. He left to engage instead in childish mischief-making.{{sfnp|Gaur|2008|p=35|ps=}} | |||
{{ | A chance remark led to Ladhi having to explain the fate of Farid and Bijli to her son. Gaur says that this caused his general anti-authoritarian, rebellious nature to "crystallise" with the Akbar regime as its target, although not as a means of revenge specifically for the deaths of his relatives but in the wider sense of the sacrifices made by rural people generally. Bhatti saw this, says Gaur, as a "peasant class war".{{sfnp|Gaur|2008|pp=35-36|ps=}} | ||
== Banditry == | |||
Bhatti's class war took the form of social banditry, taking from the rich and giving to the poor.{{sfnp|Gaur|2008|p=36|ps=}}{{efn|''Social bandit'' is a concept devised by [[Eric Hobsbawm]], defined as "peasant outlaws whom the lord and state regard as criminals, but who remain within peasant society, and are considered by their people as heroes, as champions."{{sfnp|Hobsbawm|2010|p=13}}}} Folklore gave him a legendary status for preventing girls from being abducted and sold as slaves. He arranged marriages for them and provided their [[dowry|dowries]].{{sfnp|Purewal|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=AxzmEYM0g84C&pg=PA83#v=onepage&q&f=false 83]|ps=}} | |||
[[File:Punjabi_Qissa_-_Dulla_Bhatti_(Cover).jpg|thumb|An edition of Punjab qissa Dulla Bhatti by Kishan Singh Arif]] | |||
His efforts may have influenced Akbar's decision to pacify Guru Arjan Dev Ji, and through Dev's influence the people of [[Bari Doab]], by exempting the area from the requirement to provide land revenues.{{sfnp|Gaur|2008|p=36|ps=}} | |||
== Death == | |||
The end for Bhatti came in 1599 when he was hanged in Lahore. Akbar had hoped to make an example of him at the public execution, expecting that he would quake with fear, but Bhatti was steadfast in his resistance to the end. Shah Hussain, a contemporary [[Sufi]] poet who wrote of him, recorded his last words as being "No honourable son of Punjab will ever sell the soil of Punjab".{{sfnp|Gaur|2008|p=37|ps=}}{{sfnp|Ayres|2009|p=76|ps=}} | |||
== Legacy == | |||
Only fragments of the ''[[vaar|vars]]'' (medieval poetry put to music) concerning Dulla Bhatti have survived to the present day{{sfnp|Singh|1997|p=448|ps=}} and ''[[Dhadi (music)|dhadi]]'' performances recounting his exploits have become less common.{{sfnp|Nijhawan|2004|p=267|ps=}} | |||
The memory of Bhatti as a saviour of Punjabi girls is recalled at the annual [[Lohri]] celebrations in the region to this day, although those celebrations also incorporate many other symbolic strands.{{sfnp|Purewal|2010|p=83|ps=}} The song "Sundri-Mundri" is sung during the celebrations and is a tribute to him.{{sfnp|Gaur|2008|p=37|ps=}} Among the significant modern literature inspired by the life is ''Takht-e-Lahore'', a 1973 play written by [[Najam Hussein Syed]].{{sfnp|van Erven|1992|p=174|ps=}} A novel based on the life of Dulla Bhatti has been written by [[Baldev Singh Sadaknama]]. | |||
A number of Indian [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]-language films have been produced films on his life, including – ''Dulla Bhatti'' (1966) by Baldev R. Jhingan, ''Dulla Bhatti'' (1998) by Pammi Varinder, [[Dulla Bhatti (film)|''Dulla Bhatti'']] (2016) by Minar Malhotra.<ref name="RajadhyakshaWillemen1999">{{cite book|last1=Rajadhyaksha|first1=Ashish|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediaofi0000raja|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema|last2=Willemen|first2=Paul|publisher=British Film Institute|year=1999|access-date=12 August 2012|url-access=registration}}</ref> A Pakistani film ''Dulla Bhatti'' (1956) has also been made. | |||
== See also == | |||
*[[Papadu]] | |||
== References == | |||
'''Notes''' | |||
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'''Citations''' | |||
{{Reflist}} | |||
'''Bibliography''' | |||
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*{{citation |title=Speaking Like a State: Language and Nationalism in Pakistan |first=Alyssa |last=Ayres |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2009 |isbn=9780521519311}} | |||
*{{citation |title=Martyr as Bridegroom: A Folk Representation of Bhagat Singh |first=Ishwar Dayal |last=Gaur |publisher=Anthem Press |year=2008 |isbn=9788190583503 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OQ4CWDeKSxUC}} | |||
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*{{citation |title=Bandits |first=Eric |last=Hobsbawm |author-link=Eric Hobsbawm |publisher=Hachette UK |year=2010 |orig-year=1969 |isbn=978-0-297-86531-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0rVNXz-WhhwC |access-date=4 February 2014}} | |||
*{{citation |first=Michael |last=Nijhawan |chapter=Transitions in the Public Realm: Dhadi in the Early Twentieth Century |title=Folklore, Public Sphere, and Civil Society |editor1-first=M. D. |editor1-last=Muthukumaraswamy |editor2-first=Molly |editor2-last=Kaushal |publisher=National Folklore Support Centre (India) |year=2004 |isbn=9788190148146}} | |||
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*{{citation |title=Popular Literature and Pre-modern Societies in South Asia |first=Surinder |last=Singh |chapter=Mughal Centralization Local Resistance in North-Western India: An Exploration of the Ballad of Dulla Bhatti |editor1-first=Surinder |editor1-last=Singh |editor2-first=Ishwar Dayal |editor2-last=Gaur |publisher=Pearson Education India |year=2008 |isbn=9788131713587 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVA0JAzQJkYC&pg=PA89}} | |||
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