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Kalbelia Community of the Thar Desert

कालबेलिया समाज

Traditionally nomadic Nath-lineage community of Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Pushkar, and Ajmer renowned for improvised desert song and whirling dance.

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Classification
Community
Origin / Scope
India
Connected Rooms
1 Tradition
Bibliography
1 Source

Archival note & context

Following India's Wildlife Protection Act of 1972, Kalbelia families increasingly centred their livelihood on performance arts, passing songs and choreography orally from mothers to daughters without written notation.

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Kalbelia
Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India · Dance
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Sources

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Kalbelia Folk Songs and Dances of Rajasthan — UNESCO Dossier 00340UNESCO ICH, 2010CC BY-SA 4.0
"Kalbelia Community of the Thar Desert." Folkroom Archive (Communities), https://folkroom.org/communities/kalbelia-community · CC BY-SA 4.0.
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