- @Amrapali #txt-anno http://www.natfom.org/?page_id=370 {u'ranges': [{u'start': u'/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/p[62]/strong[1]/em[1]/span[1]', u'end': u'/div[1]/div[4]/div[1]/div[1]/div[3]/p[63]/span[2]/span[1]', u'startOffset': 0, u'endOffset': 414}], u'quote': u'Kambad Dance\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Kambad dance of the Malhar Kolis is popularly performed by male dancers only, accompanied by singing women, who usually sit or stand besides the dancing circle. All male dancers wear ghungroo around their ankle. While this dance is being performed one or two dancers dress up as women or even act like insane person and crack jokes to entertain the audience. This dance is performed to please the God of rains to send rains as is reflected in songs sung by them. Like the Warlis, the Malhar Kolis also perform this fertility dance to propitiate the goddess of grains. Kansari, to give them plenty of crops.', u'permissions': {u'admin': [], u'read': [], u'update': [], u'delete': []}, u'text': u'Kambad Dance - Maharashtra', u'tags': u'["Folk-dances-of-india","Maharashtra","Kambad-Dance","male-dance","ghungroo"]'} created: Mon, 04 May 2015, 01:47 PM UTC