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jati,”””birth”” — a word often translated in English as “”caste””. Refers to regional systems (“”clans””)
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Read moreNusrat Fatah Ali Khan,”the most famous “”qawwal””, or singer/leader of the qawwali, of the twentieth century. Provided the music for many films
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Read moreqawwali,”A form of musical performance, something including dance, associated with Sufism, and particularly associated with the Punjabi-speaking regions of both India and Pakistan. Qawwali is always a group performance, with a male lead singer and a group of back up male singers and musicians. The texts of Qawwali are religious, in a Sufi mode. The most traditional location for Qawwali performance is at a Sufi Dargah
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Read moreSatyajit Ray,”A Bengali director associated with the “”new wave””. While most of Ray’s films were in Begnali, he also directed films in Hindi
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Read moreDevdas,”The title of a novella by Bengali author Sharatchandra Chatterjee, and the name of the novel’s central character. The novel has been made into a series of films, both in Hindi and Bengali, and has established itself as an all-time favorite plot in the Bollywood canon. The central story revolves around a love triangle: Devdas, British-educated, immatre and alcoholic, loves Paro, his childhood companion now married to someone else
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