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1. abhinaya, n. View full entry 1880
...In Indian dance: the use of any of various expressive techniques to convey a mood, emotion, theme, or idea....
2. alap, n. View full entry 1834
...In classical Indian music: the improvised non-metrical section of a raga, forming a prologue to the formal expression....
3. avatar, n. View full entry 1784
...HinduMythol. The descent of a deity to the earth in an incarnate form....
4. bhajan, n. View full entry 1914
...A devotional song....
5. bhangra, n. View full entry 1965
...A traditional Punjabi male folk-dance; also, the music accompanying this dance....
6. bosh, n.4 View full entry 1846
...A fiddle....
7. chutney, n. View full entry 1813
...A strong hot relish or condiment compounded of ripe fruits, acids, or sour herbs, and flavoured with chillies, spices, etc....
8. Collery, n. View full entry 1763
...The name of a non-Aryan people inhabiting an area of southern India to the east of Madura....
9. devadasi, n. View full entry 1817
...A nautch girl in a Hindu temple....
10. dhol, n. View full entry 1891
...A large Indian drum....
11. dhrupad, n. View full entry 1898
...A classical form of north Indian vocal music, consisting of a prelude and four sections developing various parts of the raga, usually sung in a slow tempo....
12. esraj, n. View full entry 1921
...An Indian musical instrument with three or four strings, and extra sympathetic strings....
13. gayatri, n. View full entry 1785
...A Vedic metre comprising three octosyllabic lines; a hymn, verse, etc., composed in this metre; esp. the verse of the Rig Veda repeated daily as a prayer by Brahmins....
14. ghanta, n. View full entry 1865
...A bell or gong, used as an instrument in Indian music....
15. gharana, n. View full entry 1957
...In Indian music, a school of players who practise a particular style of interpretation....
16. goombay, n. View full entry 1774
...A kind of drum used in the West Indies, made by stretching a skin across the ends of a box, or a portion of a hollow tree, or the like. Also ...
17. grama, n.2 View full entry 1807
...A scale used in Indian music....
18. jadoo, n. View full entry 1886
...Magic, conjuring....
19. jagatī, n. View full entry 1843
...A Vedic metre of twelve syllables....
20. jati | jâti, n. View full entry 1891
...(See quots.)...
