India , for its part , still has an overwhelmingly impoverished population and suffers from ethnic , religious and regional divisions . The vast majority of the indian population remains semiliterate and lives in poor rural villages .

而印度，就其本身而言，绝大多数为贫困人口且存在种族、宗教和区域纠纷等问题，印度人绝大多数属于半文盲且生活在贫困乡村。

Folk songs as a group are even more widely accepted than art songs and popular songs , having circulated for generations , sometimes in different countries , among illiterate and semiliterate folk who had little knowledge of the other two bodies of song .

民歌因流传了几代人，比美声歌曲和流行歌曲更为大众所接受。有时它们会流传于不同的国家，流传于文肓和半文盲的人群中，这些人对其他两种歌曲的风格几乎一无所知。