Jhumair

Jhumair

Jhumair

Folk dance of East India


Jhumair or Jhumar is an Indian folk dance from the Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Bihar and West Bengal.[1][2][3][4] It is folk dance of Sadan, the Indo-Aryan ethnic groups of Chotanagpur.[5][6][7] It is mainly performed during harvest season.[8] The musical instruments used are Mandar, Dhol, Nagara, Bansuri.[5] This dance style consists of performers standing in a row holding hands, singings couplets, swaying their bodies, clapping their hands and occasionally adding timed jumps.[9]

Jhumair dance by Tea-tribes of Assam

Varieties

The Jhumair/Jhumar from different region vary from each other in style.[10][5] There are variety of Jhumar in the region of Chotanagpur such as:

Notable exponent

See also


References

  1. "Jhumar of the West Bengal highlands". INDIAN CULTURE. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
  2. Sinha, Manik Lal (1974). Jhumar of the West Bengal highlands. Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi.
  3. "Out of the Dark". democratic world.
  4. Manish Ranjan (2022). JHARKHAND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2021. Prabhat Prakashan. ISBN 9789354883002.
  5. Gupta, Shobhna (2002). Dances of India. Har-Anand Publications. ISBN 978-81-241-0866-6.
  6. Stephen Blum; Philip Vilas Bohlman; Daniel M. Neuman (1993). Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History. University of Illinois Press. pp. 224–. ISBN 978-0-252-06343-5.

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