Rajasthan Cultural Tour

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Rajasthan Cultural Tour Package

Rajasthan Cultural tour package is home to a fascinating range of music and dance which varies from region to region and is often associated with local festivals. Particularly important is the long and complex history of patronage that sustained many different groups of performers.

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In our Rajasthan cultural tour offer the chance to enjoy folk dancing, music, creature program as well as delightful food in various cities as well as villages of Rajasthan. Likewise, we take you to markets and invention villages where you can both witness and also buy the authentic handwork of the competent craftsmen’s.

Explore Professional Musicians during Rajasthan Cultural Tour

The desert region of western Rajasthan is home to three castes of settled, hereditary musicians: the Muslim Manganiyars (also known as Mirasis) and Langas, and the Hindu Dholis (sometimes called Kathaks). Although Muslims, the Manganiyars perform Hindu devotional music in temples for Hindu patrons. The male members of the caste traditionally play the kamaycha (a bowed lute), now often replaced by the harmonium, the dholak (barrel drum) and kartal (wooden clappers). The Langas sing ballads for Muslim patrons, accompanied by either the gujaratan or sindhi sarangi (bowed lutes). Rajasthan Cultural Tour Packages… They also play the satara (double flute) and murli (double clarinet). The music of the Langas and Manganiyars bears similarity to Hindustani concert music with its use of raga and tan (fast improvised passages).

The Dholis are devotees of the goddess Chamund devi and Bhairojni (Shiva) who perform for high-caste Hindu patrons. Dholans (female-Dholis) sing at life-cycle ceremonies, while male Dholis play the dhol (large cylindrical drums which give the caste its name) for processions and celebrations.

Other professional groups of performers include the Bhands (actors), Jogis or Saperas (snake charms who play the murli double clarinet), and Nats (acrobats who play the dhol and thali, a metal dish used as an idiophone). Another group were the professional female courtesan dancers and singers, known as kalavant or tawaif, who use to perform at the courts or for landowning patrons.

Must Visit Epic Performance during Culture Tour in Rajasthan

Kathputli or puppet shows are performed at night by couples of the itinerant Bhat community, who are also genealogists. The woman plays the dholak, and sings the ballad to which the man makes the puppets act and dance. A discussion goes on between the two, serving as a running commentary on the show. The puppet plays are based on popular legends.

Pabuji ki par is very popular with those who worship Pabuji, a 14th-century hero. Believers in Pabuji invite his bhopas (epic singers and priests) to their homes in times of sickness and misfortune to sing this ballad at all-night vigils. Pabuji's pad (ballad) is sung before an open scroll, about 10 meters (30 feet) long and 2.5 metres (8 feet) high, depicting his life. The bhopa sings and plays the ravanhatta (a bowed lute), while his wife sings and dances, holding an oil lamp to illuminate Pabuji's images on the scroll at appropriate points in the narrative.

Devotional Music of Rajasthan

As elsewhere in India, the Hindus of Rajasthan gather in temples to sing collective devotional songs known as bhajan. Attached to the Krishna temple in Nathdwara is a group of professional musicians who perform devotional songs known as pad and kirtan at all rituals. They are accompanied by pakhavaj (barrel drum), sarangi and jhanj (cymbals).

Must Visit Rajasthani Cultural Dance

Of all traditional Rajasthani dances, the best known is the ghumar, a circle dance performed by women at the Gangaur festival and also by Rajput women at festivals and family celebrations. Each region and community has its own variation; usually women wearing wide skirts and veils, in groups, pairs or individually, spin around in alternating directions. The dancers wear pellet bells (ghunghru) around their ankles. The dances are performed to songs which articulate women's concerns, accompanied by a dholak. Ghumar in Udaipur is danced with small sticks in the dancers' hands which are struck together to the rhythm.

In contrast, the ger dance (of which there are also many versions) is performed only during the Holi festival by men alone. The singers play huge daphs (frame drums) to accompany the dance, which is circular. The ger is sometimes performed as a stick dance.

The composite ger-ghumar dance of the Bhils is also performed at Holi and during spring. To start, the men dance in the outer circle, and the women dance in an inner one. All the dancers sing and strike sticks with attached pellet bells together, to the rhythm of a drum beat. The men and women change circles with every change of rhythm.

Kacchi ghori is a spectacular dance performed during wedding processions by three or four pairs of elaborately costumed men riding hobby-horses and waving swords. The dancers, usually of the Bavaria, Kumhar and Sargara castes, are accompanied by dhol and bankia (trumpets). Occasionally a female singer will narrate the exploits of the Bavaria dacoits (bandits) of Shekhavati.

The jasnathi Agni (fire dance) is performed by the Sidh Naths of Bikaner, and is an act of devotion to the saint Jasnath. An ensemble of trumpets and drums begins to play as the devotees dance on the embers of a wood and charcoal fire. The music and dance gradually increase in tempo to a frenetic pace.

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