Komal Kothari

Komal Kothari painstakingly worked to preserve the cultural memory and made numerous recordings of folk music.

The institution houses a repository of recordings by Kothari and works to collect, preserve, and disseminate the oral traditions of Rajasthan.

His vision was actualised in the form of Arna Jharna - The Thar Desert Museum of Rajasthan in Borunda, near Jodhpur.

[5] Kothari’s work on the oral epics of Rajasthan further extended his argument of geographical connections of folk music.

Kothari had made a deeper inquiry of folk traditions to make insightful observations on poer structures and hegemony that informed the historians of Rajasthan significantly.

The museum space has been designed as a section of Thar desert and its native vegetation like different cacti, and agrarian produce like jowar, bajra, and makka.