Tejaji Ballad (A-027)
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Authors
Meena, Madan
Publication Date
2010-09-05Publisher
World Oral Literature Project
Language
Other
Type
Audio
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Meena, M. (2010). Tejaji Ballad (A-027) [Audio file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244554
Description
Talwas is famous for its fair and snake procession in which men goes into the jungle, finds a snake and carry it to the Tejaji Shrine in a procession while singing the Tejaji Ballad. They believe that it is incarnation of Delwarji (Snake deity). The village also stages Tejaji-ka-khel (i.e. Drama based on Tejaji’s life) during the fair. Here the fair starts tree days after the Teja-Dashmi festival.
Abstract
The collection consists of audio recordings along with related photographs and videos. The project was mainly based on recording 20 hours of the Tejaji Ballad sung by the Mali (gardeners) community of the village Thikarda. But along with Thikarda, nightlong recordings were also done in some 23 other villages of Hadoti and surrounding region for a comparative study.
Keywords
Oral Literature, Oral Tradition, Linguistic Anthropology, Tejaji, Tejaji Gatha, Snake deity, Folk deity, Thikarda, Rajasthan, Ballad
Spatial Coverage
House of Radheshyam Saini, Village Talwas, Tehsil Nainwa, District Bundi, Rajasthan, INDIA
Temporal Coverage
September 5th 2010 - September 6th 2010
Sponsorship
World Oral Literature Project
Identifiers
This record's URL: http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244554
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported
Licence URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/
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