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	'''Komal Kothari''' was an Indian folk artist and classical singer.<ref>[http://www.princeclausfund.org/en/what_we_do/awards/2000kothari.shtml 2000 Prince Claus Award] Accessed 1 June 2006</ref><ref name="pb">{{cite web\|url=http://pib.nic.in/release/rel_print_page1.asp?relid=1600\|title=Komal Kothari – The Folk Musician\|date=22 April 2004\|publisher=Press Information Bureau Government of India}}</ref>		'''Komal Kothari''' was an Indian folk artist and classical singer.<ref>[http://www.princeclausfund.org/en/what_we_do/awards/2000kothari.shtml 2000 Prince Claus Award] Accessed 1 June 2006</ref><ref name="pb">{{cite web\|url=http://pib.nic.in/release/rel_print_page1.asp?relid=1600\|title=Komal Kothari – The Folk Musician\|date=22 April 2004\|publisher=Press Information Bureau Government of India}}</ref>

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'''Komal Kothari''' was an Indian folk artist and classical singer.<ref>[http://www.princeclausfund.org/en/what_we_do/awards/2000kothari.shtml 2000 Prince Claus Award] Accessed 1 June 2006</ref><ref name="pb">{{cite web|url=http://pib.nic.in/release/rel_print_page1.asp?relid=1600|title=Komal Kothari – The Folk Musician|date=22 April 2004|publisher=Press Information Bureau Government of India}}</ref>

==Career==
Kothari's research resulted in his development of the study of a number of areas of folklore. In particular, he made contributions to the study of musical instruments, [[oral tradition]]s and [[puppetry]].<ref name=co>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/news/libraries/2004/2004-06-17.kothari.html Remembering Komal Korthari] Columbia University, Accessed 1 June 2006</ref>

He was also a [[patron]] of [[Langha (tribe)|Langa]] and [[Manganiyar]] folk music, the latter of which translates to 'beggars' and is currently used as a debasing term for Merasi.<ref>Stephen Huyler, 25 September 2016</ref> {{citation needed|date=September 2016}} He was the first to record them and helped shem out of their traditional regions.<ref>[http://www.goodnewsindia.com/Pages/content/conservation/manganiyars.html The magical music of Manganiyars goes global] Good news India, Accessed 1 June 2006</ref> To this end, he also founded the magazine '[[Prerna]]'.

Kothari founded the ''Rupayan Sansthan'' with [[Vijaydan Detha]] at Borunda village in Rajasthan, an institute that documents Rajasthani folk-lore, arts and music, and spent most of his career at the Rajasthan Sangeet Natak Academy. He died from [[cancer]] in April 2004.

==Awards and honours==

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Padam shree

Padam bushan

Rajasthan ratan award 2012

==Legacy==
A 1979 documentary film on his ethnomusicology work, and another titled ''Komal Da'', on his life and works, are now archived at [[Columbia University Library System|Columbia University Libraries]].<ref name=co/>

==Works==
* ''Monograph on Langas: a folk musician caste of Rajasthan''. 1960.
* ''Folk musical instruments of Rajasthan: a folio''. Rajasthan Institute of Folklore, 1977.
* ''Gods of the Byways''. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. 1982. {{ISBN|0-905836-28-6}}.
* ''Rajasthan: The Living Traditions'',Prakash Book Depot. 2000. {{ISBN|81-7234-031-1}}.
* ''Life and works of Padma Bhushan Shri Komal Kothari (1929-2004)'', by Komal Kothari, National Folklore Support Centre, NFSC. 2004.
* ''Bards, ballads and boundaries: an ethnographic atlas of music traditions in West Rajasthan'', by Daniel Neuman, Shubha Chaudhuri, Komal Kothari. Seagull, 2007. {{ISBN|1-905422-07-5}}.

==Further reading==
* ''Rajasthan: An Oral History — Conversations with Komal Kothari'', by Rustom Bharucha. Penguin India. 2003. {{ISBN|0-14-302959-2}}.

==See also==
* [[Musical Instruments of Rajasthan]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.indianfolklore.org/journals/index.php/IFL/article/download/397/447 Life and works of Shri Komal Kothari] ''National Folklore Support Centre''
* [http://www.indianfolklore.org/journals/index.php/IFRJ/article/download/16/20 Conversation with Komal Kothari]

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