Gagan Preet Singh

Hākam Button Sahib: indigenous recasting of the police officer John Paul Warburton (1840–1919) in late nineteenth-century Punjab

Abstract This article examines indigenous laudatory verse in print surrounding the police officer John Paul Warburton (1840–1919) in late nineteenth-century Punjab in genres such as qissa, bārāmāsā , and qaṣīda . Rooted in the oral and performative literary culture of Punjab, the...