Punjab Rebel: History Of Resistance and Rebellions In the Punjab

Punjab Rebel: History of Resistance and Rebellions in the Punjab reclaims a history long buried beneath colonial erasure and state-sponsored amnesia. Spanning four centuries — from the advent of Mughal rule to the catastrophe of Partition in 1947 — it traces the unbroken spirit of a people who resisted invaders, defied empires, and refused submission.

Through tribal uprisings, Sufi defiance, peasant revolts, revolutionary socialism, and mass politics, the book restores agency to Punjab’s forgotten heroes. Challenging imperial narratives that reduced rebellion to lawlessness and martyrs to criminals, it argues that Punjab’s past is best understood not through rulers, but through those who resisted them