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The Bin-baja, bīṇ bājā, also Gogia bana, is a rare five-string bowed harp played by male musicians of the Pardhan caste in the Mandla area of ​​the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh to accompany epic songs. Only the musicians of the Gogia, a small social subgroup of the Pardhans, play the bin-baja for their patrons, the Gonds, instead of the bowed lute bana that Pardhans otherwise use to accompany songs. First described in more detail in ethnomusicological literature in 1985bin-baja is the only harp still existing in India, the shape of which goes back to the ancient Indian bowed harps known as vina, depicted until the end of the 1st millennium.