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Deusi Bhailo:
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deusi-bhailo-tihar.html
Gandarbha Community and Sarangi:
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Damphu and Tamang Selo:
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Nepalese Folk Culture Compilation of Research Journals Original Title: Nepalese Folk Culture (First Edition, 2014) Publisher: Nepal Music Center Trust Pingalasthan, Kathmandu Copyright © Nepal Music Center Trust 2014
Tamang Selo Songs: Music as an agent of restoration of ethnic identity
By Aratrika Ganguly
Aarbajo:
1. Kadel, Ram Prasad (2007). Musical Instruments of Nepal. Katmandu, Nepal: Nepali Folk
Instrument Museum. pp. 217, 271. ISBN 978-9994688302.
2. Alison Arnold (2000). South Asia: the Indian subcontinent. Taylor & Francis.
pp. 698–. ISBN 978-0-8240-4946-1. Retrieved 24 March 2012.. ... one of the most important of
these rites is puja 'worship' performed to music of the sarangi and the arbajo, believed to be its
predecessor.
3. Aarbajo Explained https://everything.explained.today/Aarbajo/
Panche and Naumati Baja:
Understanding the Dichotomy of Auspicious and Untouchability: An Ethnographic Study of Damai Musicians of Nepal
Ganga B. Gurung
Rest of the site:
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx
Concise History Of Darjeeling District Since 1835 by E. C. Dozey
Prison Notebooks (Quaderni del carcere), Antonio Gramsci
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