Music for the Royal Dasai (Gorkhā and Nuwākot)

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Catalogue identifier: klm000077
Alternate titles and import identifiers: KLM000077
Author or attribution: Carol Tingey
Record type: Article
Language: English
Date / edition: 1997
Source / repository: European Bulletin of Himalayan Research; Digital Himalaya
Access: Open access
Subjects: KLM Research Sources — Second Set, 5 November 2026; Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Temples, Sacred Places, and Historical Worship; Hymns, Prayers, and Devotional Poetry

Description and curator notes

Tingey examines the musicians and repertoires serving royal Dasai celebrations at Gorkha and Nuwakot. Her account contrasts women’s auspicious singing with male military and Damai ensembles, documenting their ritual responsibilities, institutional histories and spatial organization. The discussion includes transliterated songs with English translations, a Kalika hymn, musical notation, and a detailed account of the nagara bana ensemble associated with Kalika at Gorkha. It gives valuable ethnographic context for the historical drummer appointments edited in Documenta Nepalica. The evidence concerns specific Nepalese goddess traditions and late-twentieth-century fieldwork, rather than a universal description of Kali worship.

Curator research source KLM000077, second set dated 5 November 2026. Verification, chronology, completeness, access and licence statements below are supplied by the curator, not a new independent audit by this library. Full texts are linked, not reproduced. Abstract languages do not change the full work's language label.

Music for the Royal Dasai (Gorkhā and Nuwākot)

Author and date: Carol Tingey • 1997

Publication: European Bulletin of Himalayan Research; Digital Himalaya. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 12–13 (1997), pp. 81–120. Complete 40-page article represented by 21 PDF images (single opening/closing pages and facing-page spreads).

Language: English with transliterated Nepali song texts and English translations

English title: Same as title

Kali relevance: Substantial direct documentation of Kalika worship, translated praise songs and temple musicians, especially printed pp. 85–89 and 100–102.

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Publication or repository record

Subjects: Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Temples, Sacred Places, and Historical Worship; Hymns, Prayers, and Devotional Poetry

Dates: Modern ethnomusicological scholarship based on fieldwork in 1987–1988 and 1990; Not applicable

Rights: Free-to-read authorized journal archive. Digital Himalaya states that journal content is CC BY 4.0, while Cambridge’s record for the same 1997 issue says All Rights Reserved. Because retrospective scope is unclear, link rather than reproduce this historical article.

Verification and limits: Beginning, ending and substantial sections inspected, without line-by-line musical analysis. Nepalese Kalika and Bhavani traditions should not be treated as interchangeable with Bengali forms.

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Free-to-read authorized journal archive. Digital Himalaya states that journal content is CC BY 4.0, while Cambridge’s record for the same 1997 issue says All Rights Reserved. Because retrospective scope is unclear, link rather than reproduce this historical article.

Citation

Carol Tingey. Music for the Royal Dasai (Gorkhā and Nuwākot). European Bulletin of Himalayan Research; Digital Himalaya. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 12–13 (1997), pp. 81–120. Complete 40-page article represented by 21 PDF images (single opening/closing pages and facing-page spreads). 1997. https://d1i1jdw69xsqx0.cloudfront.net/digitalhimalaya/collections/journals/ebhr/pdf/EBHR_12%2613_06.pdf

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