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Geets are also central to many cultures and communities across the globe and are used in a variety of contexts and purposes. Frequently, religious communities employ geets to not only express devotion but also to transmit knowledge of their faiths. For instance, in the Satpanthi Ismaili communities
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is called Pada or Antara.Famous poet and lyricist Golendra Patel, while defining 'song', has said that "Song is the soulful voice generated by the impact of human sympathy on the string between heart and mind, that is, song is the voice of life in its soulful nature."
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etc. Therefore, it has a beginning part known as Prabandha which is followed by an Udgraah or Dhruv which is its part that is repeatedly sung and cannot be left out, the ending part is known as
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Shairi whose most important feature is its Indian ethos with the strain being feminine, and the tone, delicate and elegant; Urdu Geets mainly speak about feminine anguish.
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or Hindavi forms part of what is known as proto-Hindi Literature whose origin can be traced to a far earlier period that produced the great historical lyric
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from love to heroism that later on in the Ritikal introduced erotism in a big way. Urdu geets are basically found written in the
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language that took shape after the colonization of India by the British and had subsequently become the court language in
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and Sawani. However, the boundary-line separating folk songs from classical songs cannot be easily traced and re-drawn.
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movement amalgamating the more ancient forms of Sanskrit and Persian poetry brought to the fore the wide range of
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Geets are a significant part of Indian folk-literature meant for all memorable occasions, then they are known as
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whereas Hindi geets have retained the flavour drawn from earlier compositions in Rajasthani dialect,
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In its classical form a Geet conforms to Prabandha, a composition bound by Dhatu that comprises
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Library is a digital curation of the Ismaili community's devotional tradition of geets.
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sung by different communities and sections of society. These
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Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Urdu Literature (2 Vol. set)
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and that part of the geet which is between Dhruv and
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