Pīro, 1832-1872

found: Piro and the Gulabdasis, 2017:title page (Pīro) page xvii (Piro, a Muslim courtesan of Lahore, narrated the saga, 'the event', of her apparently wilful flight, kidnapping, escape, and obsequious asylum in the Gulabdasi dera of Guru Gulabdas, 1809-1873) flap Jkt. (a hitherto unknown woman, Piro, and her little known sect, the Gulabdasis; Piro is the extraordinary voice of a low caste Muslim and a former courtesan who reinvent her life as an acolyte in a heterodox sect; Piro's remarkable poetry displays bhakti imaginary in exceptional way, demonstrating how to enriched the lives of women and low castes)

found: Wikipedia WWW. site viewed on December 14 2017:(Piro Preman,1832-1872 was the first female Punjabi poet; she is believed to have been sold into prostitution in Heera Mandi, Lahore and escaped to become a devotee of Gulab Das at the Gulabdasi Dera in Chathian Wala, in present-day Pakistan; Das was a Sikh Jat who founded the Gulabdasi sect; the sect was based on Hindu-Sikh asceticism, but considered themselves to be neither Hindu nor Sikh)