Persian emperor Nadir Shah invaded India in the eighteenth century. His onslaught was strongly resisted by many local rulers and landholders alike. The article explains the situation from the lens of an eighteenth-century Punjabi poet Nijābat who wrote a Vār -a genre in the Punjabi poetry- to appreciate the resistance of locals against the invasions of outsiders. Nijābat not only explains the atrocities committed by the army of Nadir Shah but also eulogizes the resilience of locals who showed extra ordinary resistance. An interesting feature of this Vār is the expression of various emotions such as anger, pride and weeping.