Folk Music - Panihari

This form is from the State of Rajasthan and is thematically related to water. The songs are generally about women fetching water from the nearby well and carrying the water back to their households in matkas over their head. The songs are usually about the scarcity of water and the long distance between the well and the village.
Sometimes the songs also talk about the daily concerns of the village women who are clustered near the village well.
Some other time, the songs also concentrate on a chance encounter between lovers, hence they are also romantic in nature. They also talk about the contentious relationship between the mother in law and the daughter in law.