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REFERENCES FOR THE ENTIRE SITE CONTENT 

Deusi Bhailo:

1.“A brief history of deusi bhailo culture and how it is adapting to changing times”, Nepal Live

Today - https://www.nepallivetoday.com/2021/11/04/a-brief-history-of-deusi-bhailo-culture-and-

how-it-is-adapting-to-changing-times/

2. "Tihar - Festival | Details | History and Origin | Explanations | Wishes & Greetings". Retrieved 28

May 2019.

3. "Tihar Deusi Bhailo". 22 October 2012.

4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. Retrieved 22 December 2009.

5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2009.

6. Deusi bhailo - The grand tradition of Nepal's Tihar festival - https://www.sitenepal.com/2019/11/

deusi-bhailo-tihar.html

 

Gandarbha Community and Sarangi:

1. Sachdeva, Swati Akshay, and Shankar Narayan Bagh. “Gaine: The Vanishing Folk

Musicians of Nepal.” Voice of Intellectual Man- An International Journal, vol. 8, no. 1,

Diva Enterprises Private Limited, 2018, p. 19. Crossref,

doi:10.5958/2319-4308.2018.00002.6.

2. Kadel, Ram Prasad (2007). Musical Instruments of Nepal. Katmandu, Nepal: Nepali Folk

Instrument Museum. pp. 217, 271. ISBN 978-9994688302.

3. Carol Tingey (December 1994). Auspicious music in a changing society: the Dāmai musicians of

Nepal. Heritage Publishers. ISBN 978-81-7026-193-3.

4. James McConnachie; Rough Guides (Firm) (2000). World music: the rough guide. Rough

Guides. pp. 198–. ISBN 978-1-85828-636-5.

5. James McConnachie; Rough Guides (Firm) (2000). World music: the rough guide. Rough

Guides. pp. 198–. ISBN 978-1-85828-636-5.

6. "Singing the sarangi's songs". Kathmandupost.com. Retrieved 22 April 2021

https://kathmandupost.com/art-entertainment/2015/09/15/singing-the-sarangis-songs

7. "Gaine: Traditional Media man – INCOMESCO". 2016-10-13. Archived from the

original on 2016-10-13. Retrieved 2019-03-28.

8.“The Nepali Sarangi - The wooden bird that can fly” , Nepali, Shyam https://

www.shyamnepali.com/about-the-sarangi

9.“Nepali Sarangi”, Courtney, David - https://chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/

sarangi_nepali.html

 

Damphu and Tamang Selo:

1."history of damphu". Archived from the original on 2011-08-30. Retrieved 2011-07-16.

2. "Damphu the musical instrument of Nepal(vid)". Francetudiant.com. Retrieved 20

April 2021.

3. “DAMPHU”, Musical Instruments of India, Indian Culture, Government of India. https://

indianculture.gov.in/musical-instruments/avanaddha-vadya/damphu

4. “Damphu or Damfoo”, Lama, Suresh., Sikkim Tamang Youth Society, 1 November 2012

http://sikkimtamangyouthsociety.blogspot.com/2012/11/damphu-or-damfoo.html

5. Damphu (Tamang Selo) – Instrument played by Tamang Community. Gurung, Yogesh,

Kursheong Hill Blogs June 2020. https://kurseonghill.blogspot.com/2020/06/dhamphu-

traditional-folk-instrument.html

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

Websites and URLs used:

https://www.metmuseum.org/

https://www.britannica.com/

https://artsandculture.google.com/

https://journals.sagepub.com/

https://www.researchgate.net/

https://www.jstor.org/

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