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Barahmasa (lit. "the twelve months") is a poetic genre popular in the Indian subcontinent [1] [2] [3] derived primarily from the Indian folk tradition. [4] It is usually themed around a woman longing for her absent lover or husband, describing her own emotional state against the backdrop of passing seasonal and ritual events.
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Jai Jai Garavi Gujarat (alternately titled Gujarat Theme Song) is a Gujarati song composed by A. R. Rahman. Prasoon Joshi has written the Hindi lyrics of the song. The title line is taken from a song Jai Jai Garavi Gujarat penned by Gujarati poet Narmad. It is performed by Keerthi Sagathia and various other artists. It was composed as part of ...
This region mentioned by him now forms modern-day Gujarat, the western state of India. [3] [5] [2] At the end of the poem, Narmad gives hope to the people of Gujarat that the dark clouds is lifting, and a new dawn is about to emerge. [6] In 2011, the composition sung by various Gujarati singers was released by the Government of Gujarat. [1]
The Kamangiri art was popular until the 20th century, but after the Great Depression the patrons moved out of the Kutch and the houses were locked down, turning the Kamangirs to other means of livelihood. Another fatal blow to the art was the 2001 earthquake, which devastated some of the notable works.
Map of Broach or Bharuch district, Bombay Presidency, British India, 1877. The city of Bharuch and its surrounds—today's district—has been settled far back into antiquity and was a major shipping building centre and sea port in the important pre-compass coastal trading routes to points West, perhaps as far back as the days of the Pharaohs, which used the regular and predictable Monsoon ...
Bharuch is also the home of the Bandhni method of clothing design and is well known for this traditional art form. At present, this heavily industrialised area is renowned for its textile mills, chemical plants, long-staple cotton, dairy products, and much more. Gujarat's biggest liquid cargo terminal is situated here.
Kathiawar ([kɑʈʰijɑʋɑɽ]) is a peninsula, near the far north of India's west coast, of about 61,000 km 2 (23,500 sq mi) bordering the Arabian Sea.It is bounded by the Gulf of Kutch in the northwest and by the Gulf of Khambhat in the east.