The dance has origins from the Sangrur district of Malwa and Sialkot, Gurdaspur, Gujranwala, Gujrat, and Shekhupura districts of Majha, with the Sialkot variant regarded as the standard. The community form of traditional b… See more

The 1950s saw the development of the free form traditional bhangra in Punjab, which was patronized by the Maharaja of Patiala, who requested a staged performance of bhangra in 1953. The first significant developers … See more

Though it has been referred to as a "Jat art," it may have had less specific origins, instead originally being a geographic West Punjabi regionalism. Eastern Punjabi Jatts originally viewed dancing as effeminate, and an acti… See more

Nowadays, while bhangra was "traditionally not for women at all," many second-generation diaspora Punjabi women have connected with their culture through bhangra, though at the expense of the traditional … See more