Dance & ritual·Kumaon & Garhwal
Jagar

Not a dance but a ritual: the jagariya sings the stories of a local deity to the beat of hudka or daunr-thali until the god 'dances' in the body of the dangariya (medium).

Not a dance but a ritual: the jagariya sings the stories of a local deity to the beat of hudka or daunr-thali until the god 'dances' in the body of the dangariya (medium).