Jari gan

Music of Bangladesh
Baul, the mystic minstrel of Bengal.
Genres
Classical Rock Hip hop
Specific forms
Religious music	Hamd Naat Ghazal Jari gan Shreekrishna Kirtana Shyama Sangeet
Ethnic music	Agamani-Vijaya Baul Bhatiali Bhawaiya Dhamail Gombhira Kavigan Maimansingha Gitika Sari gan
Traditional music	Rabindra Sangeet Nazrul Geeti Lalon Hason Raja
Media and performance
Music awards	Shilpakala Academy Award
Music festivals	Dhaka World Music Festival
Music media	Radio Radio Foorti Radio Today Radio Amar ABC Radio Television Channel 9 Banglavision NTV Channel i Channel 16 Internet AmaderGaan.com
Nationalistic and patriotic songs
National anthem	Amar Sonar Bangla
Other	Notuner Gaan (National March) Ekusher Gaan (Ode to the Language Movement)
Regional music
Related areas	Bengal West Bengal
Other regions	India Pakistan

Jari gan (Persian Jari/zari for lamentation and Bengali gan for song) or (song of sorrow) is one of the few indigenous music art performances of Bangladesh. Though varied and divergent in form, most are based on legends relating to Muslim heroes Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali, grandsons of Muhammad and other members of his family at Karbala.^[1] The most renowned is jari gan from eastern Mymensingh, which commemorates the death of Hosain at Karbala. The performers, who are male Sunni Muslims, work chiefly as farmers.

The origins of jarigan may be traced back to the early 17th century when poetry started being written on the tragic stories of Karbala. One of the earliest recorded is Muhammad Khan's poem on Karbala titled Maktul Hussain (The Martyrdom of Hussain) in 1645, when Shi'ism had reached Bengal via Persia.^[2]

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