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The Legends of Punjab is a book on Folklores of The Legends of the Punjab Punjab written by an officer of Britain Government named captain Richard Karnick Temple. This book introduced these folk tales to the world.

Book Printing
Richard Karnick Temple compiled "The Legends of the Punjab" in three volumes. Its first volume was published in 1884, the second in 1885, and the third in 1900. Regarding "The Legends of the Punjab" it is written:

"Two of these persons are of good repute, who introduced the folklore of India to the world. One is William Crook, who studied the Folklore of Northern India (1894 A.D.) in two volumes. Even today there is no match for it. Another is RC Temple who set a high standard in three volumes The Legends of the Punjab (1900-1884 A.D.). He hid the oral material by collecting it, translating it, arranging it, commenting on it and categorizing it."

Content availability
The people from whom Temple collected the material for the book refer to them with epithets such as opium, Smoker. (10) In "The Legends of the Punjab" he has thanked some Zamindars and Munshis, but he does not care to mention the names of those from whom he heard these stories. Have done some research. These people are still remembered by the names of "Mian", "Mir" and "Qureshi" and they are not remembered by any good name. Temple realized that for one thing the professional "Bhats" were disappearing and now there was hardly anyone to be seen.

Topics
"The Legends of the Punjab" contains sixty-nine (59) rhymed stories in three volumes. He has brought up the themes of Ogres, ghosts, devas, witches, devils, snakes, fire fairies, magic, sorcery, fortune telling, etc. while analyzing them. He wants to prove that the culture of the subcontinent is very archaic and stereotyped, which has not stood the test of time. Behind this concept is the thought of Max Muller and Edward B. Tyler. Müller was among the Arian thinkers. He said that the northern part of the subcontinent also belongs to the "Aryas", their own culture also emerged here, but later it adopted the culture of the southern part. The thing is that the European researchers did not even believe Muller's words that in the olden times the people here were civilized and experts in science and arts.