Chhau dance, na baŋ la sɛge eŋ la Chhou dance, waa la India deme classical dance naŋ maŋ taa zɔɔ zɔɔ bigruu aneŋ a noba saaŋkompare yɛlɛ mine.[1] O maŋ taa la yoe parɛɛ ata te kyaare neŋ zie ŋa ba naŋ maŋ seɛrɛ o, ka a ziiri la Purulia Chhau naŋ be West Bengal, a Seraikella Chhau naŋ be Jharkhand aneŋ a Mayurbhanj Chhau naŋ meŋ be Odisha.
Chhau e la seɛre ŋa naŋ maŋ yi irigyini naŋ be a East India paaloŋ poɔ. O boɔloo ŋa da yi la a Sanskrit Chāya (galakyuu, enfuoni bee nimipɔgraa). Noba mine ŋmeɛrɛ o yiibo zie enna a Sanskrit root Chadma (disguise), ka ba mine aseŋ noba bama ba naŋ boɔla Sitakant Mahapatra meŋ yeli ka o yi la Chhauni (military camp, armour, stealth) a yi a Odia kɔkɔre poɔ.
A yuoni 2010, ba da sɛge ŋmaa la a Chhau seɛre eŋ a UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
A Hindi film Barfi! maŋ taa la waaloŋ mine naŋ maŋ yiniŋ ana na a Purulia Chhau meŋ naŋ maŋ taa o poɔ.
A Chhau mask naŋ yi Purulia be a Geographical Indications merɛ kpaambo poɔ. Aŋa o tɛɛtɛɛloŋ poɔŋ, a Purulia Chhau nimbipɔgraa maŋ yi la o yoŋ aneŋ a saaŋkonoŋ yɛlɛ.