found: Work cat.: Ghazals and dadras / Malika Pukhraj, 1971:label, side two (Ghazals & dadra) container (Ghazals and dadras; Ghazal) liner notes ("Her silvery rich voice and her superb expressive style were ideally suited for rendering romantic ghazals and dadras")
found: Grove Music online s.v. Pakistan, June 3, 2009("After a first generation of renowned artists ... the Pakistani preference for sung poetry has shifted artistic succession to semi-classical song, mainly ghazal, as well as ṭhumrī and dādrā")
found: Grove Music online s.v. India, June 3, 2009("The term dādrā, aside from referring to a common six-beat cycle, also denotes a semi-classical vocal genre, closely related to ṭhumrī but having a somewhat lighter character. In dādrāthe singer generally employs Dādrā or Kaharvā tāla and maintains a more lively rhythmic lilt; dādrā lyrics are exclusively amatory and often include verses in Urdu as well as Braj-bhāśā")
found: The South Asia web site, June 19, 2009(Khalid Manzoor Basra. Music in Pakistan: "Dadra - a musical genre, sung in a tal cycle of six beats stresses the words more than the musical intricacies in its rendition as opposed to the thumri, a genre of singing, light and amorous in character, which employs intricate melismatic patterns and stresses musical lines more than the words")
