This project attempts to analyse four folk art forms of Maharashtra - Kirtana, Bharud, Lavani and Povada, using two ascribed identities of society members - Gender and Caste.  Traditionally some of these folk arts, Kirtana and Povada, were dominated by male performers, while Lavani was performed by women along with their female singers and male musicians.  This project is a conscious, systematic effort to unearth the existent but subtle inequalities in the multiple folk expressions to comprehend the impact in its totality.  This study aims to appraise the folk art forms in Maharashtra to describe gender and caste hegemonies.