This article is about a folk dance of east India. For its eponymous music, see Jhumar song. For other uses, see Jhumair (disambiguation).
Jhumair or Jhumar is an Indian folk dance from the Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Bihar and West Bengal.[1][2][3][4] It is folk dance of Sadan, the Indo-Aryan ethnic groups of Chotanagpur.[5][6][7] It is mainly performed during harvest season.[8]
The musical instruments used are Mandar, Dhol, Nagara, Bansuri.[5] This dance style consists of performers standing in a row holding hands, singings couplets, swaying their bodies, clapping their hands and occasionally adding timed jumps.[9]
Jhumair dance by Tea-tribes of Assam
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