Bodo's Music and Dance

The Bagurumba

Bagurumba dance

The Bodos traditionally dance Bagurumba. It is practiced and performed usually by young village girls and also evident in schools and colleges dominated by the Boro community. This dance is accompanied by the Bagurumba song which goes like this

Bagurumba, Hai Bagurumba
Bagurumba, Hai aio Bagurumba
jat nonga bwla khun nonga bwla
thab brum homnanwi bamnanwi lagwmwn kha
hwi lwgw lagwmwn kha...

this lines indicates that, if we are not really jath and khul they might be taken us whenever they want, but we are very much jath and cool so nobody can catch or carry us- it’s a confidential song of Boro women. They thought that, lose character’s women goes to bad practices and if someone comes to catch her, she never protects or restrict them. So we are not that type of women,,, we are jath and cool.

“Turi barinilai daosen

jwngni lagwalwi dajen”

(kobam gwrwbhwnai) the meaning of this line is- we should not lose / no failure. We must won any games always. It’s a confidential song of boro women

Musical instruments

Among many different musical instruments, the Bodos use:

Sifung: This is a long bamboo flute having five holes rather than six as the north Indian Bansuri would have and is also much longer than it, producing a much lower tone.^[2]

Serja: a violin-like instrument. It has a round body and the scroll is bent forward.

Tharkha: a block of bamboo split into two halves for clapping.

kham : a long drum made of wood and goat skin.

Khawang: small symbols, a smaller version of that being used in namghar.

Jota: made of iron/tama