First appeared in www.scroll.in on November 22, 2014. Tappa, one of the Hindustani music forms, is said to have its origins in the songs of the camel-drivers from Punjab.  Ghulam Nabi, a musician in the court of Nawab Asaf-ud-Daulah of Awadh (1775-1797), incorporated elements of these songs and created the tappa form as we now know it.  In fact, many traditional tappas have been composed by Ghulam Nabi in dialects of Punjabi and his pseudonym Shori Miyan appears in