Punjabi folklore , more particularly its folksongs are said to be the autobiography of its people.

Folklore is the body of expressive culture

Culture

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, including tales, music

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, dance

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, legend

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s, oral history

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, proverb

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s, joke

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s, popular belief

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s, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the tradition

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s (including oral tradition

Oral tradition

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s) of that culture, subculture

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, or group

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. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The academic and usually ethnographic

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 study of folklore is sometimes called folkloristics

Folkloristics

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List of Punjabi Folklore

• The Advantures of raja Rasalu- (Punjabi:ਰਾਜਾ ਰਸਾਲੂ)
• The Chronicles of the Nang
• Sakhi Sarwar
  Sakhi Sarwar
  Sakhi Sarwar is a town and union council of Dera Ghazi Khan District in the Punjab province of Pakistan.-Lakh Data:Syed Ahmad Sultan Sakhi Sarwar is also known as Lakh Data, Sakhi Sultan and Lalan Wali Sarkar. He was the son of Hazrat Zainul Abedin, who migrated from Baghdad and settled in Shahkot ...
  
   and Dani Jatti
• Dhanna Bhagat
• Sarwar
• The Marriage of Ghazi Salar
• The Legend of Guru Guggalegends of the Panjab, Part 1 By R. C. Temple, Page121
  
• The Ballad Ofg Isa Baniya
• The Ballad of Isa Bapari
• Princess Adhik Anup Dai
• The Legend of Sila Dai
• The Story of Raja Mahi Parkash of Sarmor
• The Story of Syama, Lord of Sohini
• The Song of Negi Bahadur
• Madana the Brave, Lord of Chaura
• The Legend of Safidon
• Princess Niwal Dai
• The Genealogies of Lal Beg
• The Legend of Raja Gopi Chand
• The Story of Raja Chandarbhan and Rani Chand Karan
• Songs About Namdev
• Sakhi Sarwar and Jati
• The Marriage of Sakhi Sarwar
• The Ballad of Chuhar Singh
• Sansar Chand of Kangra and Fatteh Parkash of Sarmor
• Raja Jagat Singh of Nurpur
• Hyms to Abdu Iiah Shah of Samin
• The Story of Raja Jagdeo
• Raja Nal
• The Legend of Raja Jagdeo
• Raja Nal
• The Legend of Raja Dhol
• Raja Rattan Sin of Chhittaur
• Sarwan and Farjian
• Puran Bhagat
• The Adventures of Mir Chakur
• Ismail Khan S Grandmother
• The Braclet -Maker of Jhang
• Heer Ranjha
  Heer Ranjha
  For 1970 Hindi movie of same name and characters, see Heer Raanjha.Heer Ranjha is one of the four popular tragic romances of the Punjab. The other three are Mirza Sahiba, Sassi Punnun and Sohni Mahiwal. There are several poetic narrations of the story, the most famous being 'Heer' by Waris Shah...
  
  
• Mirza Sahiba
  Mirza Sahiba
  Mirza Sahiba is one of the four popular tragic romances of the Punjab. Heer Ranjha and Mirza Sahiba, including Sohni Mahiwal and Sassi Punnun are the four tales from Punjab, narrated in Punjabi...
  
  
• Sohni Mahiwal
  Sohni Mahiwal
  Sohni Mahiwal and is included in seven popular tragic romances from Sindh and Baluchistan. The other six are Momal Rano, Umar Marvi, LiLa Chanesar, Noori Jam Tamachi, Sassi Punnun and Dhaj, Ror Kumar commonly known as Seven Queens of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai...
  
  
• Sassi Punnun
  Sassi Punnun
  Sassi Punnun ; is one of the seven popular tragic romances from Sindh and Baluchistan. The other six are Umar Marui, Sohni Mehar, Lila Chanesar, Noori Jam Tamachi, Momal Rano and Dhaj, Ror Kumar commonly known as Seven Queens of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai...
  
  
• Sucha Singh Soorma
• Jeona Maur
• Shirin Farhad
• Loona
• Kehar Singh Ram Kaur
• Sham Kaur/sham Singh/sham Lal
• Dhol Sammi
• Yusuf and Zulaikha
  Yusuf and Zulaikha
  Yusuf and Zulaikha is the Quranic verse of Yusuf and Zulaikha . It has been told and retold countless times in many languages spoken by Muslims, especially Persian. Its most famous version was written in Persian by Jami , in his Haft Awrang...
  
  
• Kaulan
• Dulla Bhatti
  Dulla Bhatti
  Rai Abdullah Khan Bhatti Rajput, popularly known as Dulla Bhatti , was a famous legendary Rajput hero of the Punjab, who led a rebellion against the Mughal emperor Akbar...
  
  
• Manu Guggu
• Ustaad Harman

External links

• The Legend of Guru Gugga
• Puran Bhagat
• Guru Gugga
• Loona by Shiv Kumar Batalvi
• The Marriage of Ghazi Salar
• Raja Jagdeo
• Raja Gopi Chand
• Arif Lohar Sings Mirza
• Punjabi Folksongs explained in English
• The Adventures of Mir Chakur
• The Ballad Of Isa Baniya
• Princess Adhik Anup Dhai
• Madna the Brave