- @Amrapali #txt-anno http://www.raagaculturalgroup.com/dances.html {u'tags': [u'Gujarat', u'Sword-folk-dance', u'Warrior-dance', u'Kshtriya-community'], u'quote': u'Formerly, in the ancient times, SHAURYA RAAS (HEROIC DANCE) played an essential and inevitable role in war training, maintaining morale, creating anxiety and control to lift up the confidence of the warriors and exhibiting the potency and powers against the enemies. SHAURYA RAAS is fascinatingly known for the dance of warfare that includes the arms and ammunitions like sticks, spheres, swords, bows and arrows, knives or gadas to attack during war. In gujrathi custom, numerous folk dance forms are mentioned to be inspired by the bravery of the people. The regions of khamir and halar in Gujarat state inherits the kshatriya community meant to be amongst the warriors of the nation in Indian tradition, perform RAAS, using swords and shields. When one is being eloquent about the acts of bravery, it is irresistible to mention and portray the picture of the valiant and sturdy Saurastrian men who are better exemplified by those having curled, dense moustaches, turban over the head, and surohi sword tugged on the waist belt. Although it pertains to have absolute absence of barbarism, yet this folk is performed with intense zeal and force, in a round fashion, pseudo-attacking one another without any impair or offensiveness and leading the soul towards purity, which in a whole, creates an incomparable, glorious and spectacular representation.', u'editable': False, u'ranges': [{u'start': u'/div[1]/div[3]/div[2]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/font[1]/p[3]', u'end': u'/div[1]/div[3]/div[2]/div[3]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/font[1]/p[3]', u'startOffset': 0, u'endOffset': 1356}], u'text': u'Sword dance - Gujarat', u'permissions': {u'read': [], u'admin': [], u'update': [], u'delete': []}} created: Tue, 10 Mar 2015, 12:20 PM UTC