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Folk Dance of Nomadic
Tribes
 Some of the indigenous folk-dances of Madhya Pradesh are by nomadic tribes like the Banjara and the Kanjar of Bhopal commissionary. In this area, one comes crossways a dance form known as Lehangi.
On the Rakhi festival, the Banjaras of Nimad dance the Lehangi. When the festival of Dussehra approaches they start dancing Garbi and Dandia. Banjara dancers have a remarkable similarity in their mode. The men accompany the women either with songs or instruments.
The Banjara women are seriously decked with silver jewellery and wrapped in colorful clothes of complementary embroidery and tiny inset of glittering mirrors. In the Lota dance, with all the ornaments and heavy clothes, they balance big-size metal pots on their heads as they swing in a liner or a circular arrangement.
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