Jhumair

This article is about a folk dance of east India. For its eponymous music, see Jhumar song. For other uses, see Jhumair (disambiguation).

Jhumair or Jhumar is an Indian folk dance from the Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Bihar and West Bengal.^[1][2][3][4] It is folk dance of Sadan, the Indo-Aryan ethnic groups of Chotanagpur.^[5][6][7] It is mainly performed during harvest season.^[8] The musical instruments used are Mandar, Dhol, Nagara, Bansuri.^[5] This dance style consists of performers standing in a row holding hands, singings couplets, swaying their bodies, clapping their hands and occasionally adding timed jumps.^[9]

Jhumair dance by Tea-tribes of Assam

Varieties

The Jhumair/Jhumar from different region vary from each other in style.^[10][5] There are variety of Jhumar in the region of Chotanagpur such as:

• Khortha Jhumar^[11]
• Kurmali Jhumar^[12]
• Panch Pargarnia Jhumar
• Nagpuri Jhumar
  • Mardani Jhumar
  • Janani Jhumar

Notable exponent

• Govind Sharan Lohra, folk artist from Jharkhand
• Mukund Nayak, folk artist from Jharkhand

See also

• Circle dance

References

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7. Manish Ranjan (2022). JHARKHAND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2021. Prabhat Prakashan. ISBN 9789354883002.
8. "अब नहीं दिखती फाग और झूमर नृत्य, खो रही है अपनी धाक". prabhatkhabar. 29 March 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
9. Gupta, Shobhna (2002). Dances of India. Har-Anand Publications. ISBN 978-81-241-0866-6.
10. Stephen Blum; Philip Vilas Bohlman; Daniel M. Neuman (1993). Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History. University of Illinois Press. pp. 224–. ISBN 978-0-252-06343-5.
11. "करम महोत्सव में बोले विधायक लंबोदर महतो, भाषा व संस्कृति है झारखंड की मूल पहचान". prabhatkhabar. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
12. "मनसा पूजा पर देवगांव में झूमर संध्या का आयोजन, संतोष व उर्मिला ने समां बांधा, झूमे दर्शक". lagatar. 20 September 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2022.