Ainee Farooqui
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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Suvadip Chakraborty
Purulia, the westernmost district of West Bengal, is known as one of the state’s most under-developed regions. But very few would know about the history of socio-cultural revolt in Purulia. We can find various references to this land in different ancient Indian pieces of literature as Bajrabhumi…
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Azeez Tharuvana
Wayanad, in Kerala, is often described as the ‘valley of heaven’. Situated around 2,500–2,700 feet above sea level, it is a rich reserve of rare biodiversity. A mountain range of considerable significance in the Western Ghats, it has an area of 2132 sq. km, of which 37.07% is covered in forests.…
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Lanbilung Gonmei
Zeliangrong is a portmanteau of Zeme, Liangmai and Rongmei (Ze + Liang + Rong), three cognate groups of tribes. These three groups practise a number of traditional festivals. Though the festivals are observed under different names, they have similar themes and objectives. Among the traditional…
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Azeez Tharuvana
The rich oral narratives of Wayanad challenge homogenous notions of the Ramayana, and celebrate the epic's plurality. Wayanad is a scenic district nestling among the hills in the Western Ghats in the north-east of Kerala. It has the largest tribal population in the state. Its several tribes have…
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In this article, Komal Kothari describes how he and Vijaydan Detha established Rupayan Sansthan in 1960, wanting it to be 'wholly "saturated" with the oral tradition of the inhabitants'. An introduction to the music, ballads, practices and lore recorded in the thousands by the institute for…
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This essay attempts to delineate the original structure of Christianity practised by the Syrian Christians of Kerala and relates it with their folk songs on the one hand and their current customary practices on the other. In the process the paper traces the historians’ views on the early…
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Shaktinath Jha
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Bandyopadhyay, Somendronath. Bānglār Bāul: Kābyo ō Darśon. Calcutta: Bookland, 1964.
Bandyopadhyay,Somen. “Baul Songs of Bengal and Their Modern Forms”, Study of Changes in Traditional Culture .Ed. By K.P. Chattopadhyay, Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1957.
Bhabha, Homi. The location of…
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