Tokari geet is a type of
Assamese folk song sung playing a ''
Tokari
The Tokari ( Assamese: টোকাৰী) is a stringed instrument played with the fingertips. The Tokari is the most widely used and popular stringed instruments in different parts of Assam. It is an ancient folk instrument of Assam. The instrum ...
''. Earlier it was called ''Tokari naam''. It is so called because a ''tokari'' is played while singing it. A tokari is a single stringed musical instrument played with the fingers; a kind of guitar.
These are usually philosophical songs based on human life, stories from
Ramayana
The ''Ramayana'' (; ), also known as ''Valmiki Ramayana'', as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics ...
,
Mahabharata
The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; , , ) is one of the two major Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epics of ancient India revered as Smriti texts in Hinduism, the other being the ''Ramayana, Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the events and aftermath of the Kuru ...
, gods and goddesses. Besides, stories of
Sankardev and
Madhavdeva is also sung here. A tokari can be played with ''
dihanaam
Dihanaam is a type of congregational prayer sung by women in Assam
Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam cov ...
'', but it cannot be called a ''tokari geet''.
See also
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Music of Assam
The music of Assam consists various Music genre, genres of Folk music, folk and modern music, drawing its artistic basis from the history of Assam, from Culture of Assam, Assamese culture and its ancient traditions. In recent times, starting fro ...
References
Music of Assam
Oral literature of Assam
Indian folk songs
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