Madan Meena: Tejaji Gatha

The World Oral Literature Project is pleased to host the collection of Madan Meena. Details of the full collection can be browsed on DSpace@Cambridge by clicking here.

The collection here contains six groups of audio recordings made at Thikarda Village of the Tejaji Ballad, sung by the Mali (gardeners). The audio recordings are accompanied by extensive imagery and video recordings. The recordings took place between 2009 and 2011. Additional recordings made in surrounding villages to act as a comparison can be found on DSpace in the link above.

Collection Details:

Collection: Madan Meena: Tejaji Gatha
Collector: Madan Meena
Date(s): 2009-2011
Language(s): Hadoti

1. Thikarda Tejaji Ballad, Part 1 of 6
The fresh recordings of the complete Ballad sung by the Thikarda village singers. This has been achieved in six sessions. To avoid repetition in the Ballad only two singers were asked to narrate the story. Thus the more experienced singer Jagaji initiated main lines of the Ballad and the supportive singer Phatuji followed him.
[Archive] [Listen to audio [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]]

2. Thikarda Tejaji Ballad, Part 2 of 6
This was the second session of the recording proposed for the WOLP project with the Thikarda singers. Audio files no. ‘file0461.wav’ relates to ‘Heed’ singing and ‘file0466.wav’ relates to ‘Goth’ singing by the same group.
[Archive] [Listen to audio [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]]

3. Thikarda Tejaji Ballad, Part 3 of 6
This was third session of the recording proposed for the WOLP project with the Thikarda singers.
[Archive] [Listen to audio [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]]

4. Thikarda Tejaji Ballad, Part 4 of 6
This was fourth session of the recording proposed for the WOLP project with the Thikarda singers.
[Archive] [Listen to audio [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]]

5. Thikarda Tejaji Ballad, Part 5 of 6
This was last part of the Tejaji ballad. But preceding to this session the singers missed to sing a part of the story preciding to this section. This missing section was recorded in ‘Thikarda New-5’ session.
[Archive] [Listen to audio [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]]

6. Thikarda Tejaji Ballad, Part 6 of 6
This was the missing section of the Ballad which was recorded again.
[Archive] [Listen to audio [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]]

7. Thikarda Tejaji Ballad Manuscript
Archived here is a PDF version of the accompanying book to the Tejaji Ballad from Thikarda. In addition to this an English translation of the Ballad sung at Dugari, near Bundi, has been included so that non Hadoti readers are able to learn more about the content of the Ballad. Many variations of the Ballad exist across Rajasthan.
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