The research paper discusses the Dhangar community in India. It explains how orality and folklore praxis preserve the history, identity, and resistance of the Dhangar community. Disadvantaged and deprived of socio-political recognition, the Dhangars are a pastoral and nomadic sub-group. To fight against this exclusion, they use oral storytelling, folklore, and music for cultural preservation and continuing resistance [Blackburn (Oral traditions and folklore in India, 2006)]. Through their Global Listening Campaign, the Dhangars are exposing the notion of listening resistance whereby they take back their own history through re-narration [(Narayan (Journal of American Folklore 107:50–65, 1994)]. The Dhangars strengthen a feeling of collective identity and solidarity by way of reinventing tradition through oral practices and using folklore to address contemporary issues of land ownership, ethnic identity, and sustainability [Briggs (Speaking truths: Oral tradition and political resistance, 2015)]. The Dhangars use songs, myths, and allegorical narratives as gentle protests that demonstrate their existence in the world [Dundes (Folklore matters, 1989)]. This study focuses on how knowledge travels across generations, the role of rhetorical devices, and the significance of metaphors and allegories [Ramanujan (Indian Folklore Studies 8:10–22, 2003)]. This paper states that Dhangar oral traditions serve as a counter-narrative that enables marginalized people to contest the dominant discourse, reclaim their past, and shape their socio-political reality [Pardeshi (Economic and Political Weekly 45:33–39, 2010)]. If we comprehend what it means to resist listening, policymakers and researchers working with oppressed communities can learn much [Lindholm (Sounding the resistance: Music, politics, and identity, 2018)].