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An ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, Singing Across Divides examines how forms of love and intimacy are linked to changing conceptions of political solidarity and forms of belonging, through the lens of Nepali dohori song. The book describes dohori improvised, dialogic singing, in which a witty repartee of exchanges is based on poetic couplets with a fixed rhyme scheme, often backed by instrumental music and accompanying dance, performed between men and women, with a primary focus on romantic love. The book tells the story of dohori's relationship with changing ideas of Nepal as a nation-state, and how different nationalist concepts of unity have incorpora...
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Includes list of injured.
Expedition to Kinner Kailash, a peak in Kinnaur, on the Indo-Tibetan border, 1978.
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Study relates to Delhi, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu.