Gondhal ceremony--Inauguration of the Archives. Close-up view of musician R. H. Garuda (sambal) performing a Jāgran (Hindu ritual): Vāghyā Muralī Jagran – Marathi devotional ritual music to Hindu deity Khaṇḍobā Goddess Amba.
Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy (front, right) and others beside the partly loaded jeep at the entrance to the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, on the premises of the American Institute of Indian Studies at Deccan College.
Office staff member of the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, with a dog on the morning the jeep was loaded for the Bake Restudy field trip.
The Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology Bake Restudy team beside the jeep, loaded for the field trip: Umashankar Mantravadi; Ashok Ranade, associate director; Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy; Saraswathi Swaminathan, archivist (in yellow); library assistant (unidentified); Kalpana Bandiwdekar, archive assistant; and M. D. Bhandare, American Institute of Indian Studies staff member.
Gondhal ceremony--Inauguration of the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology. Three musicians perform a Jāgran (Hindu ritual): Vāghyā Muralī Jāgran – Marathi devotional ritual music to Hindu deity Khaṇḍobā and Goddess Amba. Standing behind a mandhab, musicians (left to right): Jagannath Tite (tuṇtuṇe), Bhagvan Renake (jālra), and R. H. Garuda (sambal). A flame, incense and objects are on the left.
View of the partly loaded jeep at the entrance to the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, on the premises of the American Institute of Indian Studies at Deccan College.
Kalpana Bandiwdekar, Archive Assistant at the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology (left), and Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy at the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, on the premises of the American Institute of Indian Studies.
Six office staff members of the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, with Ram Gaekwad, driver (2nd from left), beside the jeep, loaded for the field trip.
View of the partly loaded jeep in front of the entrance to the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, on the premises of the American Institute of Indian Studies, at Deccan College.
Jāgran (Vāghyā Muralī)--Inauguration of the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology. Behind the mandhab, Mānik Bāī gestures and holds a tuṇtuṇe, and a musician sings and plays jālra, during a Jāgran (Hindu ritual): Vāghyā Muralī Jāgran – Marathi devotional ritual music to Hindu deity Khaṇḍobā Goddess Amba. A flame and objects are on the left.