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Nautanki is a popular performance genre combining story, music, dance and dialogue. It started as an all-male form of musical entertainment in Hathras during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, but the theatrical dimensions of nautanki developed in the Kanpur region, from the early…
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These songs provide a small window into the diverse and rich variety of wedding songs of Awadh region. These songs are an indispensable part of our intangible history which needs to be preserved. This doumentation can help provide an understnding of the aspiration, hopes, emotions, ideas of…
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In eighteenth century Europe, a new cultural movement called Romanticism emerged in opposition to Enlightenment beliefs, which celebrated the natural and simple world and looked at the past with appreciation. In Germany, people such as Johann Gottfried Herder and the Grimm Brothers set out…
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This module aims to capture the rich diversity of the wedding songs in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh. It attempts to understand the struggles and experiences of mirasins. Mirasin is a social group who are traditionally involved with singing of songs on occasions such as wedding, birth, and…
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Shahjahan commenced the building of his new capital in 1639. It took almost nine years for its completion and the city was finally inaugurated in 1648, probably in the month of April, coinciding with Nauroz—the new year of the Persians. Exactly 100 years from its founding, Delhi was…
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