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Bengali Ballads

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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On the occasion of a wedding, a pūjā, or any other festival, it is quite a customary thing for a well-to-do man in Bengal to engage a kaihak or a pañchāli or yātrā party to give a performance or a series of performances in the courtyard of his house, where a considerable portion of the population of the village assembles as an audience, and sits, often right through the night, listening to song and speech, dialogue and story. It is for the most part by means of such performances that a knowledge of the myths and traditions of Hinduism is preserved in the minds of the illiterate mass of the population of Bengal.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 1926 , pp. 89 - 96
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1926

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References

page 91 note 1 Eastern Bengal Ballads, Mymensing, Ramtanu Lahiri Research Fellowship Lectures for 1922'24, in two parts. Compiled by Dineścrchandra Sen, Bai Bahadur, B.A., D.Litt. With a foreword by the Earl of Ronaldshay. Published by the University of Calcutta, 1923.

page 93 note 1 In the original “an epistle of two and a half letters”.

page 95 note 1 The Rāmāyana of Chandrāvatī is still in existence. It has never been printed, but it is widely known amongst the women of the Mymensingh district and a manuscript copy of it has been secured for the Library of the Calcutta University.