Banna and banniHarauti
Praise of the bridegroom and of the bride, sung in alternation by the two households.
Sung at: Weddings. Still the standard wedding repertoire in Hadoti villages, and sung in Harauti rather than in Hindi.
Hadoti · Arid Northwest
Folk songs
Bindori geetHarauti
Teasing and blessing of the groom as he is taken from house to house on horseback before the wedding.
Sung at: The nights of the groom's village procession.
Teej and Gangaur geetHarauti
Women's songs for the monsoon swing and for the Gangaur procession — the seasonal calendar sung rather than written.
Sung at: Sawan and Chaitra.
Chakri songsHarauti
The dholak-and-manjira repertoire the Kanjar women of Kota and Baran spin to. The songs are short and cyclic because the dance is long.
Sung at: Weddings and fairs.
Fair bhajans of Chandrabhaga and Kapil DharaHarauti and Hindi
Devotional singing carried through the night by village mandalis camped on the river bank, with the bathing at dawn as the end of the session.
Sung at: Kartik Purnima and the river fairs.
Sahariya forest songSahariya speech, close to Harauti
The forest year — flowering, collection, marriage and migration for wage work. Almost none of it has been recorded or published, which is the most important fact about it.
Sung at: Mahua flowering, tendu collection, and the Sitabari gathering.
Dingal recitationDingal, the bardic Rajasthani register
Genealogy and battle, in the Charan tradition. Suryamall Misran's Vansh Bhaskar, written at the Bundi court in the nineteenth century, is the region's monument in this form and is still recited in extract.
Sung at: Court and community gatherings.
The folk songs of Hadoti — what they are about, who sings them and when. (7)