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Chaar Bayt is a 400-year-old traditional performing art, performed by a group of artists or singers. Chaar Bayt or Four Stanzas is a form of folklore and performing art. It is still alive today mainly in Rampur (Uttar Pradesh), Tonk (Rajasthan), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) and Hyderabad of Telangana (erstwhile Andhra Pradesh). [1]
Uttar Pradesh's centres of art and craft include: Agra , home since the Mughal era to Mughal crafts, including the Pietra Dura , still practised today. Aligarh is a centre of Zari work , (a type of fabric decoration), 'Jhumka' – an intricate ear-rings or ear-pendants, Manja and Surma ( Kohl (cosmetics) ).
This type of floor art is called phullchittarana. Such floor art is drawn on various occasions including festivals. Similarly, Gupta (2020) in her research paper Chauk poorna Uttar Pradesh ki lok sanskriti ka strot ek vivechan, also explains that the art of Chowk Purana in Uttar Pradesh is practiced by women on festivals and happy occasions. [41]
Khurja pottery is traditional Indian pottery work manufactured in Khurja of the Bulandshahr district in Uttar Pradesh state, India. Khurja pottery has been protected under the Geographical indication (GI) of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement. It is listed at item 178 as "Khurja Pottery" of ...
In states like Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, women usually wear ghaghra and a full sleeved blouse or kurta salwar adorning a coat and an orni (headscarf). The men usually wear kurta and pants or shirt) coat with a Himachali cap. In the states of Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana, traditional dress is Kameez Shalwar.
Nawabs of Awadh were fore-runners of this culture. [19] The region of Awadh in the state of Uttar Pradesh is usually considered to be the center of this culture. [20] [21] Allahabad, Lucknow, Kanpur, [22] [23] [24] Faizabad-Ayodhya, [21] [25] and Varanasi [26] [27] are a few of the many centers of this culture.
The Ochre Coloured Pottery culture (OCP) is a Bronze Age culture of the Indo-Gangetic Plain "generally dated 2000–1500 BCE," [1] [2] extending from eastern Punjab to northeastern Rajasthan and western Uttar Pradesh. [3] [4] Artefacts of this culture show similarities with both the Late Harappan culture and the Vedic culture.
Shadow puppets are an ancient part of India's culture and art, particularly regionally as the keelu bomme and Tholu bommalata of Andhra Pradesh, the Togalu gombeyaata in Karnataka, the charma bahuli natya in Maharashtra, the Ravana chhaya in Odisha, the Tholpavakoothu in Kerala and the thol bommalatta in Tamil Nadu.