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It began after sundown in Borotalpada, a remote Santhali village in the district of Jhargram in West Bengal, India. It seemed one has come to the end of the world. A dusky path lined on either side with sal and mahua trees opened onto a sort of…

Women from different Jetor villages located at considerable distance are united by their common love of river (Kangsabati) and Baba (Lord Shiva), on whose head they pour Holy River Water twice a year. (Bhatpara, Paschim Medinipur)

A section of the Jetor community holds a profound reverence towards termite mounds, worshipping them as sacred manifestations of divine power. It is believed that a folk goddess embodies the termite mound on the wall of a living room. The holes and…

Jetors have their own priests (Bamuns). Nowadays priests are sometimes invited from outside their community, but in olden times their own priest used to perform Puja and related rites.

Jetor men of Bhatpara, Paschim Medinipur carrying water from Kangsabati to participate in their ethnic religious-festival named Jol Dhala. The human chain of worshippers resembles Proto-Australoids.

Young Sing Bajna (a kind of musical performance) artists of Sarpal, Paschim Medinipur, P.S. – Kharagpur. This is one of the ancestral professions of the Jetor people.

Jetor artist Sri Ananda Mahar of Budra, P.S. – Kharagpur, Paschim Medinipur, is playing on the Sanai (Clarinet). Sanai is one of the instruments the Jetors play in their Bai- Bajna performance.

Jetor artist Rupali Ghorai of Goaldanga, P.S. – Gurguripal, Paschim Medinipur is singing Tusu song. Another Tusu artist is seen dancing.

Jetor centenarian Kunti Maity of Banstala, P.S. – Kharagpur, Paschim Medinipur.

Gour Maity from the Jetor community showcasing a “Chanch”. Jetor people weave “Chanch” with thatch-grass collected from the bank rivers of Kangsabati and Subarnarekha, the two rivers on the banks of which Jetor people live.