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Patayani is an ancient ritual art form which blends music, dance, theatre, sataire, masks, costume, paintings, etc. Patayani highlights the domination of light over darkness. Patayani orginated from the myth dharikavadham. It is also a harvesting festival. Patayani is a combination of myraids of ancient belief system and diverse of worship. Motif is the basic unit of folklore; it relates a character, story and incident, just like a phoneme in language that is an arbitatary sign. The artist imposes a specific meaning to motif. This research paper analyzes the motifs of Patayani. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on findings of a study on sociopolitical aspects of "Ojapali" performance of Assam, India. Topics include cultural deiversity in Assam, which is divided in Upper and Lower Assam in terms of cultural differneces; cultural performances of Assam like Bihu dance; role of Ojapali as an epic storytelling form in Assam; identity Darangi cultural practitioners; and significance of Ojapali as a struggle for recognition of the cultural identity of Lower Assam.

Although Euro-American musical revivals are usually connected to folk music, the postcolonial Indian revival privileged "classical" music and dance as objects of priceless national heritage. Yet, the revival in India was not a straightforward process of cultural recovery in the wake of occupation. Issues of authority, authenticity and appropriation are woven into the process of reclamation. Through a comparison of this period in Indian dance history with themes in current theories of revival, this article moves towards a model of "revival" as a global phenomenon seeking to broaden our understanding of cultural continuity and change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]