{"id":2745,"date":"2023-02-06T04:46:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T23:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2025-03-26T00:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:31:59","slug":"what-is-dhamaal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-dhamaal\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Dhamaal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Dhamaal:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dhamaal is a mix of <strong>Sufi and African<\/strong> (mostly East African) <strong>musical and dance<\/strong> traditions.<\/li>\n<li>It refers particularly to the spiritual practices of the <strong>Siddis of Gujarat<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Usually, Dhamaal songs and dances are performed to celebrate the anniversary of the birth and death of spiritual leaders.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are performed in <strong>two ways<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dance Dhamaal:<\/strong> It is performed in both sitting and dance positions and the focus is more on the <strong>sounds of the instruments<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Baithaaki Dhamaal:<\/strong> is performed in the sitting position and the <strong>focus is more on the lyrics<\/strong> and less on the musical instruments.<\/li>\n<li>The spiritual songs that are sung during the <strong>Dhamaals are known as zikrs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about Siddis<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The term Siddi refers to <strong>Afro-Indians<\/strong> \u2014 Africans who mixed with Indians through marriage and relationships.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They crossed the Indian Ocean and arrived in India during the 12th, 13th and 14th century<\/li>\n<li>They were transported by Islamic invaders and Portuguese colonisers as enslaved people, palace guards, army chiefs, harem keepers, spiritual leaders, Sufi singers, dancers and treasurers.<\/li>\n<li>In the present day, the majority of them are found in the west and <strong>southwest of India<\/strong>, in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Telangana states.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Sufism?<\/h3>\n<p>Sufism is a mystical Islamic belief and practice in which Muslims seek to find the truth of divine love and knowledge through the direct personal experience of God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/blog\/world\/dhamaal-the-incredible-story-of-how-east-african-culture-shaped-the-music-of-a-state-in-india-87491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Dhamaal: The incredible story of how East African culture shaped the music of a state in India<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhamaal is a mix of Sufi and African (mostly East African) musical and dance traditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}