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Bhojpur & Purvanchal · Middle & Lower Gangetic Plain
Songs to the sun and to Chhathi Maiya, sung on the walk to the ghat and through the night. This is the festival's heartland, and the songs are among the most widely recognised in north India.
कब गाया जाता है: Chhath, Kartik and Chaitra.
The man who leaves for Calcutta and the wife who waits. Composed by Bhikhari Thakur in the early twentieth century, when the migration he describes was at its peak.
कब गाया जाता है: Performed year-round, and at weddings.
Separation and eastward migration, associated with Mahendar Misir of Saran — the region's own account of what indenture and labour migration did to its households.
कब गाया जाता है: Sung as a concert and village form.
Monsoon songs of longing, sung on swings by women and, at Mirzapur, in competitive all-night sessions with professional singers.
कब गाया जाता है: Sawan.
Spring songs addressed to Rama's birth month, sung in a distinctive descending line.
कब गाया जाता है: Chaitra.
Separation, cattle, caste pride and current affairs, sung solo at volume with a chorus refrain — a folk form that became a professional stage industry.
कब गाया जाता है: Night gatherings and stage competitions.
Household life-cycle song, with a large gaari repertoire of ritual abuse aimed at the groom's party.
कब गाया जाता है: Births and weddings.
The formless divine and the body's impermanence, in the Kabir line — sung at cremations, including at Manikarnika itself.
कब गाया जाता है: Deaths and night vigils.
Bhojpur & Purvanchal के लोकगीत — किस बारे में हैं, कौन गाता है और कब। (8)