Folk and Folk-Lore Culture of Maharashtra PDF

FOLK AND FOLK-LORE CULTURE OF MAHARASHTRA Author(s): V.C. KAMBLE and P.V. RANSURE Source: Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute , 2008-2009, Vol. 68/69 (2008-2009), pp. 191-205 Published by: Vice Chancellor, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute (Deemed Un...

FOLK AND FOLK-LORE CULTURE OF MAHARASHTRA Author(s): V.C. KAMBLE and P.V. RANSURE Source: Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute , 2008-2009, Vol. 68/69 (2008-2009), pp. 191-205 Published by: Vice Chancellor, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute (Deemed University), Pune Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/42931206 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute This content downloaded from 106.206.23.95 on Tue, 25 Mar 2025 08:48:25 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms  FOLK AND FOLK-LORE CULTURE OF MAHARASHTRA V.C. KAMBLE and P.V. RANSURE Introduction of musical instruments is used by these tribes in the State of Maharashtra. Customs and beliefs, ritualistic behaviour, dances, folk music and other non-literary The term folklore was first coined by manifestations form part of the larger study William Thomas, a British antiquarian in 1 846. of ethnology also. The folk and folklore ofThe study of folklore materials was at the time, simple communities and also of the ruralbeing carried on under labels such as popular inhabitants, who live in close proximity of antiquities or popular literature. Therefore he the civilized, urban people, has long been suggested a good Saxon compound folklore attracting the anthropologist, ethnological,the lore the people, Willam Bascom suggests sociologist, litterateurs, linguists, philosophers,that the term 'Verbal art' to denote the oral historians, and scholars engaged in the studyaesthetic tradition of tale, proverb, songs and riddle in the culture, tearing out the of man's manifold creativeness. Nowadays, supernatural beliefs system and the plastise. the study of folklore and folk literature is of He clarified the functional uses of the folklore highest importance in the West, although it is surprisingly not so in the necessity of studyingin non-literate societies (Jadav 1998:04). Search for folklore in India was initiated from the literary, anthropological and linguistic aspects of different communities. And they various quarrelers during the last century. This search created interest in folk music also. It practise the most primitive technology. So far neglected by the sociologists, anthropogistsis interesting to have a look in to the basic structure of some of these instruments as it and folklorists (Sukumar 1988: 1). Theories in reflects a great deal on the musical ingenuity folklore study are fresh and juicy at first they in of the folks. In the realm of a folkway, dance time, dry up, and blow away into history. What lasts are the data. In the vast field of studies in and music rule supreme and one can't think tribal life, history and culture in general and of Maharashtra without this important element pertaining to tribes. The foremost responsibility of its folk life. The Kathodi or Katkari is one of the folklorist is to engage with other human of the tribes of the Maharashtra. Dawali is beings, to record their creations, scientifically an occasion for them for singing songs and and to embed them in detailed description that dancing. They celebrate Holi, Akaja, Pola account, for the process of their creation, the and Pitar Amavasya, Kara as well Peran and dynamics of their performance, and intricacies Dhol dance are their traditional dances. Also of their ramifying meanings. A large variety dancing form the chief recreational activities of This content downloaded from 106.206.23.95 on Tue, 25 Mar 2025 08:48:25 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 192 Bulletin of the Deccan College 68-69 (2008-2009) 4p CDhule ,,J ' S... Nagpui^ * S w* rftfļiravati... * », f =, '-. vftrdlA Bhan Í "Jalgapn. , j , 1 Nasik rS ' ÄJdanä,. : Ga«ļchiroī i *"*> ®