Raj Gonds. [motion picture]

Year Published: 1982

Creator: British Broadcasting Corporation

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Produced by the BBC Examines the customs of the Raj Gonds, once a rich and powerful people who ruled a large area in central India, but who now live on rented land as a tribal group outside the mainstream of Indian life. Focuses on their annual festival of Dandari in which they cover themselves with dust and ashes and take a bemused and self-deprecating look at their present low status, and poke fun at landlords, gods, and bridgegrooms

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