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| name = Chadar Badar<br />
| image = Chadar Badar Puppetry.jpg<br />
| caption = Chadar Badar Puppet Folk Art<br />
| medium = Wooden puppets<br />
| types = Puppetry<br />
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| descendant =<br />
| culture = [[Santhal people|Santhal]]<br />
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'''Chadar Badar''', also known as '''Santhal Puppetry''', is a tribal performing art of the [[Santhal people]],<ref name="Daricha">{{cite web | url=http://www.daricha.org/genre.aspx?ID=20&Name=Puppetry | title=Daricha | publisher=Daricha | date=2015 | accessdate=March 24, 2015}}</ref> mainly found in the Indian states of [[Jharkhand]], [[West Bengal]], [[Odisha]], [[Bihar]] and [[Assam]].<ref name="Telegraph India">{{cite web | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110107/jsp/jharkhand/story_13400270.jsp | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110506151043/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110107/jsp/jharkhand/story_13400270.jsp | url-status=dead | archive-date=May 6, 2011 | title=Telegraph India | publisher=Telegraph India | date=7 January 2011 | accessdate=March 24, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Indian Puppets">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iy6_TtXCZjMC&q=chadar+badar+puppetry&pg=PA28 | title=Indian Puppets | publisher=Abhinav Publications | author=Sampa Ghosh, Utpal Kumar Banerjee | year=2006 | pages=494 | isbn=9788170174356}}</ref> Once a dying art form, it was revived by the efforts of social activists such as Ravi Dwivedi and exponents like Sukan Mardi<ref name="Telegraph India" /> and Daman Murmu.<ref name="Daman Murmu">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/a-dying-art-form-that-tells-the-santhal-story/article7017248.ece | title=Daman Murmu | publisher=The Hindu | date=21 March 2015 | accessdate=March 24, 2015}}</ref> The Government of West Bengal has set up a National Puppet Museum at [[Kankurgachi]] to preserve the art forms of puppetry including Chadar Badar.<ref name="National Puppet Museum">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/national-puppet-museum-to-come-up-in-kolkata/article5606810.ece | title=National Puppet Museum | publisher=The Hindu | date=23 January 2014 | accessdate=March 24, 2015}}</ref><br />
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Chadar Badar is performed with the assistance of wooden puppets hung inside a wooden box, open on three or four sides with curtains. The performer narrates stories by words and verse from ancient Santhal culture using the puppets, accompanied by tribal musical instruments.<ref name="Daman Murmu" /> The painted puppets are 5 to 9 inches tall and has movable limbs, manipulated by the performer, using strings attached to them.<ref name="Indian Puppets" /><ref name="Claygun">{{cite web | url=http://claygun.blogspot.ae/2011/02/chadar-badar-puppets-and-its-revival-by.html#!/2011/02/chadar-badar-puppets-and-its-revival-by.html | title=Claygun | publisher=Claygun Blog | date=2015 | accessdate=March 24, 2015}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[Santhal people]]<br />
* [[Gopalila]], puppet art of Odisha state of India<br />
* [[Kathputli (puppetry)]], puppet art of Rajasthan state of India<br />
* [[Nokkuvidya pavakali]], puppet art of Kerala state of India<br />
* [[Rabana Chhaya]], shadow puppet art of Odisha state of India<br />
* [[Sakhi kandhei]], string puppet art of Odisha state of India<br />
* [[Shadow play]], shadow puppet art which originated in first millennium BCE in India <br />
* [[Tholpavakoothu]], shadow puppet art of Kerala and Tami Nadu states of India<br />
* [[Tholu bommalata]], shadow puppet art of Andhra Pradesh state of India<br />
* [[Togalu gombeyaata]], shadow puppet art of Karnataka state of India<br />
* [[Wayang]], puppet art of Indonesia inspired by Indian puppetry<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{cite book | title=Indian Puppets | publisher=Abhinav Publications | author=Sampa Ghosh, Utpal Kumar Banerjee | year=2006 | pages=494 | isbn=9788170174356}}<br />
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