Abstract
Folklore are consist of historical legend which form popular belief, customs,
rituals and different types of traditional mega-narratives. Story-telling is an
ancient profession and tradition of human civilization; thus folklore is a very
common phenomenon to primitive racial societies as well as post modern complex
cosmopolitan cultures. The folklore records the memory of how society or certain
tribes lead their life through the history. It brings to lights various aspects of
society dealing with religion, rituals, customs, beliefs, superstitions etc. It also
provides background data to study the politics, economy and state of knowledge
amongst given structure of cultures. That is why while writing history, historians
have to rely heavily on the tradition of folklore. The same is the case with
Cholistan and neighboring Rajhistan. James Tod in his Annals and Anquities of
Rajhastan relied heavily on the data provided by Folklorists. Writing this paper
oral sources of folklore are relied along with written sources
Abdul Razzaq Shahid, Muhammad Shafique, Zulfiqar Ahmad Tabassam. (2016) Historical Anthropology of Cholistan Through Folk Tradition, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 53, Issue 1.
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