Abstract

Music is the best art among different fine arts. This Music is always streaming from very ancient period i.e. from pre-Vedic period. It can be learnt from the history of music that there were two categories of music in ancient time namely `Marg Sangeet` and `Deshi Sangeet’. The songs sung by the ancient people in marriage ceremony, funeral ceremony and other ceremony. The old `Lok Geeti` being influenced by different types of modern tunes has evolved into different forms of folk song. `Tusu` song is one of the most popular traditional folk song, which is prevalent in Rarh Bangla region from very ancient period. Tusu is considered as the Goddess of crops. Tusu song is sung throughout the month of `Poush` starting from `Agrahayan Sankranti`. It is like a true public festival and local people from all the religion like Kora, Mahato, Lodha, Santal etc. participate in the festival. Though the folk culture of India has mutated massively but trace of ancient folk culture is still existent which is evident in Tusu song which is prevalent from very ancient time and its example can be observed in the Rarh region of West Bengal.