• TRIBAL STUDIES OF INDIA SERIES T 145

• UNENDING RHYTHMS
  • ORAL POETRY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES
  • SITAKANT MAHAPATRA
  • Contents
  • Primitive Poetry as Love and Prayer
  • Dharmu Above, Dhartani Below :
  • The Poetry of the Kondhs
  • The Sarhul Moon :
  • The Poetry of the Mundas
  • The Sacred Grove and the Bongas :
  • The Poetry of the Santals
  • The Landscape of Love :
  • The Poetry of the Parajas
  • High Noon on the Rocks :
  • The Poetry of the Hos
  • The Awakened Wind :
  • The Poetry of the Oraons                                                 .
  • The Realm of Secret Powers :
  • The Poetry of the Koyas
  • (Untitled)
  • Primitive Poetry as love and Prayer
  • I
  • III
  • IV
  • V
  • (Untitled)
  • (Untitled)
  • Dharmu Above, Dhartani BELOW:
  • The Poety of the Kondhs
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • The Meriah Song
  • I
  • Purchase of the Meriah
  • II
  • The First Stab by the Priest and the Overture
  • III
  • Invocation to Earth-Goddess (Dhartani or Jhakar)
  • Lamentation for the Dead
  • Invocation to Goddess Chitagudi
  • (Situgudi or Sitama)
  • Sloka to Exorcise Diseases
  • On This Sacred Soil of Ancestors
  • For the Dead Ancestors
  • I Offer You my Black Fowl
  • Friends and Brothers
  • Salt Business Fish Business
  • Voices Get Tired
  • The Thorned Bamboo
  • Come You All Snakes and Frogs
  • LOVE SONG: I
  • LOVE .SONGS : 2
  • LOVE SONGS : 3
  • LOVE SONGS : 4
  • Love song : 5
  • LOVE SONGS : 6
  • The Sun Beats
  • LOVE SONGS : 7
  • (Untitled)
  • Love Song : 8
  • LOVE SONGS: 9
  • Love songs : 10
  • Love songs : 11
  • Love songs : 12
  • LOVE SONGS : 13
  • Love songs : 14
  • Marriage songs : 1
  • Marriage songs :2
  • Marriage Songs: 3
  • Marriage songs : 4
  • Marriage songs: 5
  • MARRIAGE SONGS: 6
  • MARRIAGE SONGS : 7
  • MARRIAGE SONGS: 8
  • MARRIAGE SONGS : 9
  • (Untitled)
  • CHAPTER TWO
  • The Sarhul Moon
  • The Poetry of the Mundas
  • Jadur Songs
  • Karam Songs
  • Jarga Songs
  • Japi Songs
  • Jatara Songs
  • Gena Songs
  • Adandi Songs

• (Untitled)

• CHAPTER THREE
  • The Sacred Grove and the Bongas
  • Erok Sim Bonga
  • Sura Sagen Mahmane
  • Asadia Bonga
  • Nawa Hulu Rakab Bonga
  • Jantal Bonga
  • Sohrae Got Bonga
  • Sohrae Gola Bonga
  • Parah Karenah Handi Bonga
  • Pelaka-ah Handi Bonga
  • Caco Catiar Nimdah
  • Bapla Handi Bonga
  • Kuli Bida
  • Nahan and Bhandan
  • Giditara
  • Binti: The Song of Creation Myth
  • IV
  • Kudum: The Santali Riddles
  • (Untitled)
  • Hital
  • Hital
  • (Extracts)
  • Chapter-I
  • The genealogy of Pilchus
  • CHAPTER II
  • CHAPTER –VIII
  • CHAPTER-IX
  • CHAPTER XI
  • Love Songs
  • Marriage Songs
  • Baha Song
  • Songs of Death
  • Miscellaneous Songs

• (Untitled)

• CHAPTER FOUR
  • Come and Entwine Me, Delicate Pumpkin Creeper
  • My Sweet Grief
  • And He Did Not Dance
  • Come, My Rhythmic Fury
  • DHANGDA
  • Words Without Horizon
  • Emptines
  • Sweet Agony
  • Bangles of Many-splendoured Rainbows
  • You Are the Rain, Fill Me Up
  • In the Dance-hall of the Earth

• (Untitled)

• CHAPTER FIVE
  • Mage Parab
  • Baha
  • Baha
  • Marriage
  • Love

• (Untitled)

• CHAPTER SIX
  • The awakened wind
  • The poetry of the Oraons
  • Sarhul
  • Karam
  • Jadur
  • Jatra
  • Marriage
  • Songs of the Fields

• CHEPTER SEVEN
  • The realm of Secret Powers
  • The poetry of the koyas
  • Siran Uge: The Magician's Song
  • The Peacock Dances
  • The Empty House
  • Sweet-Potato Creepers
  • Useless as Dimiri Flower
  • O Spirit Of The Hill
  • We are the Marat Leaves
  • White as A Crane
  • The Roads of Malkangiri
  • APPENDIX 1
  • Musicological Presentation of Nine Selected Songs
  • with Graph Notation
  • A NOTE ON READING THE GRAPHS*
  • Santali Baha Banga
  • Santali Mag Banga
  • A Santal Love song
  • A SANTAL SOHRAE (THE SONG OF WINTER
  • HARVEST)
  • A Kondh Song
  • (A song generally sung during "Magh Parob')
  • A Santal Sohrae: The Winter Harvest Home
  • A Munda Song
  • A Paraja Song
  • A Ho Song
  • A Koya Marriage Song
  • APPENDIX II
  • An extract from
  • Personal Narrative of Thirteen Years Service
  • Amongst the Wild Tribes of Khondistan for the
  • Suppression of Human Sacrifice*
  • APPENDIX III
  • Extracts from
  • General Macpherson's Report on Khonds of Odisha
  • APPENDIX IV
  • Four extracts from
  • Horkoren Mare Hapramko Reak Katha
  • APPENDIX-V
  • An extract on
  • The Oraons from Descriptive Ethnology
  • of Bengal by Edward Tuite Dalton 1872
  • APPENDIX VI
  • An extract on
  • The Mundas from Descriptive Ethnology of
  • Bengal by Edward Tuite Dalton 1872
  • Bibliography

• Result