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]
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^"अब नहीं दिखती फाग और झूमर नृत्य, खो रही है अपनी धाक". prabhatkhabar. 29 March 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
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^Stephen Blum; Philip Vilas Bohlman; Daniel M. Neuman (1993). Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History. University of Illinois Press. pp. 224–. ISBN 978-0-252-06343-5.
^"करम महोत्सव में बोले विधायक लंबोदर महतो, भाषा व संस्कृति है झारखंड की मूल पहचान". prabhatkhabar. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
^"मनसा पूजा पर देवगांव में झूमर संध्या का आयोजन, संतोष व उर्मिला ने समां बांधा, झूमे दर्शक". lagatar. 20 September 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2022.