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Sawani is a genre of semi-classical singing, popular in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. [1] [2]

It comes in the series of season songs, like Chaiti, Hori and Kajari, and is traditionally sung in the villages and towns of Uttar Pradesh: around Banaras, Mirzapur, Mathura, Allahabad and the Bhojpur regions of Bihar.

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