Interview with Harnarayan Jath about Tejaji Ballad (A-035)

Harnarayan Jath is popular in the region for his knowledge on Tejai Ballad. Now is aged and has stopped singing but people still invites him to attend the Jagarans.

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

Thakurji Temple, Thakurji Temple, Tehsil Uniyara, District Tonk, Rajasthan, INDIA

Temporal Coverage

September 16th 2010

Sponsorship

World Oral Literature Project

Identifiers

This record's URL: http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244561

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