Alha Khand – The Book – Facts – Short Essay

Alha Khand is a popular folk-epic in North India consisting of many gathas (folk ballads). It is presently known as Alha, and its reciters are called alhait. Tradition says that the name of its composer-poet is Jaganik. Alha was, perhaps, composed between 1182 and 1203 CE. In 1865 CE, Sir Charles Elliott employed one of three or four Alha singers to compile Alha. It was published for the first

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