The largest body of folk music in Uttar Pradesh, or in India for that matter, is the songs that women sing: “In its effect on people’s lives, there is no more important music in North India: these songs convey religious knowledge and social sentiments at the heart of everyday life, and the people who sing and hear them number in the hundreds of millions
” (Henry 1988:25). Women’s songs can be divided into sanskār kī gītsanskār kī gīt...
