The Music of Hindostan c6.276

c6.276

At Tanjore I heard some ‘bandy’² men. They sing at night, as they drive along, to let the dacoits, of which there are plenty there, know that they are awake (and in a position therefore to return blow for blow). One of them had been beaten, and showed a mark on his forehead in proof of it: the other said he had been stoned. The feature of their tunes (Exs. 90, 91) was the long note