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No Borders: Manganiyar Seduction

I’ve lived a lot of my life in borderlands. Draw a line in the dust and suddenly ‘we’ become ‘them’. The popular mythology is that people on ‘that’ side of the border are different. They are not ‘us’, even though they were ‘us’ for centuries before the line was drawn on the map. This way of looking at the world has fascinated me because, like the Emperor’s new clothes, it doesn’t seem to…

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Damp Kindling: Jhalaak

I love the idea behind this album. Mixing hip-hop with Manganiyar folk is such an obvious choice I can only wonder, ‘why hasn’t it been tried earlier?’ The juxtaposition of hoary mystical traditions smack dab up against contemporary EDM sounds, the layering of righteous raps on top of Punjabi poetry and the combining of simple nomadic instruments with studio produced drum beats makes the blood…

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Manganiyar Seduction

Yes, they seduce you with their music. A game of light and sound by a group of folk musicians from Rajasthan, India. It is a treat to watch them live.

Location : Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

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Two Communities, One Music

Source: rajfolkseries.com

The Manganiyar and Langa are both exclusively hereditary communities who make their livings as musical performers for higher-caste patrons. They have lived for centuries in the Thar Desert region of western Rajasthan; in the districts of Barmer, Jaisalmer and the villages along the border of Pakistan. Both groups are Muslim, but the Langa’s patrons are Muslim Sindhi…

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Festival of Sacred Music

My friend, Ranvir Shah and his Prakruti Foundation does The Festival of Sacred Music in Thiruvaiyaru every year. Details here

This year, the festival is from March 6 to 8 and has a terrific line up. The Manganiyars, Kadri Gopalnath on Saxophone and Filter Coffee, a rock band. Imagine sitting under the stars and listening to this music on the banks of the Cauvery.

This festival is open to all.…

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The Manganiyar Seduction

If you read about Jaisalmer, you'll read about the licentious diwan who tormented the Kuldhara chief's daughter and drove the Paliwals out of Jaisalmer district leaving intact houses full of gold. Here, aratikumarrao goes looking for the Paliwal legacy in a poem recited by the Manganiyars:

"Intrigued by snatches of their history that hinted at their tenacious ability to thrive within a harsh landscape, and curious to go beyond the tourist drivel of Salim Singh (the licentious diwan), I began to poke around. Where did they come from? What was their life like? And yes, why did 84 villages really up and leave? And, what was most interesting … How did they get so rich in a dreary desert?"

Late one July afternoon, when monsoon clouds eclipsed the desert sun but refused to relieve the heat, I sat in the picture window of a coffee shop waiting for a call from Mame Khan. A few weeks prior, he had traced someone who knew the Paliwal chhand.

All morning, Mame Khan and I were engaged in intense negotiation with the old Manganiyar and his nephew Babu Khan.

“You will make a movie of us,” Babu Khan rasped. I will only take notes, I said.

“You will sell the chhand,” he said. I will only take notes, I said.

“You will make a lot of money from the video,” he said. I will only take notes, I said.

“Give us 20,000 rupees for the chhand,” he said. “I will pay you for your time, but I don’t have that much”, I said.

And so it went on. Let me at least come and meet you, I said; I have come from far.

Finally, there I was, on a long straight narrow road that sliced through the hot desert in the direction of Fatehgarh. The landscape changed as my jeep raced along, as the desert swallowed the sandstone structures of Jaisalmer.

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