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Kangra & Dhauladhar · Western Himalaya & Trans-Himalaya
The arrival of spring and the naming of the household — sung door to door by hereditary singers who are paid in grain rather than coin, and who name each family they sing to.
कब गाया जाता है: The month of Chaitra, at the turn of the year. Among the clearest surviving instances of a calendar announced by song rather than by a printed almanac.
Praise and petition to the goddess at the Kangra Shakti shrines, sung in long night sessions.
कब गाया जाता है: Navratri and the pilgrimage season.
The women's wedding cycle — the bride's bathing, her dressing, her departure — sung in sequence over several nights and keyed to the ritual step it accompanies.
कब गाया जाता है: Weddings.
A woman's longing described month by month through twelve changes of weather. The same scheme is the subject of an entire genre of Kangra painting, which is unusually direct evidence of song and image sharing a text.
कब गाया जाता है: Sung through the year, and painted.
The crossing of the passes, the count of the flock, and the wife left below the snow line for five months of the year.
कब गाया जाता है: Departure for and return from the high pasture.
Teasing and satire aimed at the groom's family, sung by women only, and licensed to say things nobody would say in daylight.
कब गाया जाता है: The wedding nights.
Fixed dance cycles attached to particular villages, learned by ear and named after the place they belong to.
कब गाया जाता है: Fairs and devta gatherings.
Kangra & Dhauladhar के लोकगीत — किस बारे में हैं, कौन गाता है और कब। (7)