Search results
Create the page "Festivals" on this wiki!
- ==FESTIVALS== Pongal is the harvest festival celebrated by the farmers in January to worship the sun, the earth and the cattle as thanks giving ...14 KB (2,021 words) - 21:50, 3 November 2017
- ==FESTIVALS== The world-famous Kumbh Mela/Ardh Kumbh Mela is held at ... twelfth/sixth year interval. Other prominent fairs/festivals are : ...50 KB (7,776 words) - 08:22, 25 September 2022
- ==FESTIVALS== The biggest congregation, perhaps of the world, Kumbha ... Waris Ali Shah. Besides, important festivals of the Hindus, Muslims ...28 KB (3,956 words) - 02:57, 10 January 2018
- ==Culture: Dances and festivals== ===Gomira mask makers=== [http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/last-of-the-gomira-mask-makers-see-silver ...32 KB (4,719 words) - 15:31, 31 March 2021
- ==FESTIVALS== Normally all festivals of Hindus, Muslims and Christians are celebrated ...8 KB (1,251 words) - 19:18, 20 December 2013
- functions, festivals, marriages, processions and related celebrations. Supreme Court in its judgements of 25 July 2005 and October 2005 has given ...71 KB (10,393 words) - 10:38, 19 January 2014
- The festivals of music, dance and drama presented or promoted by the ... exhibitions and major festivals in foreign countries. =PERFORMING ARTS= ...53 KB (8,024 words) - 14:25, 13 December 2015
- youth festivals. =RAJIV GANDHI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF YOUTH DEVELOPMENT= Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD) a Deemed ...32 KB (4,889 words) - 20:50, 10 February 2014
- India to make their mark in international festivals abroad. Avinash Arun's ... film’s circuit of international film festivals that sparked the Oscar ...26 KB (3,827 words) - 07:00, 24 March 2023
- at a number of international film festivals like Cairo, Dubai and New York. Buddhadeb Dasgupta's Janala too travelled the film festival circuits ...14 KB (2,182 words) - 18:38, 26 February 2023
- poems on Muslim heroes, historical places and festivals eloquently testify his deeply-entrenched faith in Islam and in its intrinsic values. His works ...11 KB (1,790 words) - 06:20, 14 June 2023
- at the various Inter College youth festivals on several occasions. She has also performed in various Assamese, Bengali, Oriya and Hindi plays ...10 KB (1,795 words) - 04:33, 8 January 2014
- Festivals mean good business, especially events like Ramlila. Mahavir says they served kulfi at three Ramlila venues this time, including the ...42 KB (6,636 words) - 07:25, 19 August 2023
- [[Category: Festivals |B]] [[Category:Name|Alphabet]] [[Category:Name ... Spring festivals were reportedly arranged around the shrines of various ...14 KB (2,388 words) - 20:58, 11 January 2014
- of Hindu deities and celebrate Hindu festivals such as Diwali and Holi. The musicians despite being devout Muslims, were never rigid. Their music ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 23:41, 25 September 2017
- be given to the natural phenomena and seasonal festivals. The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in ...134 KB (21,862 words) - 21:11, 17 February 2024
- of signages and parking during festivals. B. Eco -Tourism Sites ... tourist destinations and fairs during festivals are showing an ...23 KB (3,388 words) - 07:53, 17 January 2014
- All kinds of social gatherings, ceremonies, festivals and recreations ... on occasion such as child birth, Nah-Nuh festivals and Nathanmei (birthday ...58 KB (9,364 words) - 22:46, 25 January 2015
- performing ritual roles during festivals, sacrifice and social actions. Lastly but not the least, even though there is no female organization ...10 KB (1,713 words) - 18:27, 23 January 2014
- rituals, or cooks who produced meals during Meitei festivals and ritual feasts. The Kshatriyas were converts to Hinduism, who took the surname ...25 KB (3,659 words) - 17:24, 28 July 2023
- [[Category:Festivals|C]] [[Category:Religion|C]] [[Category:Name|Alphabet]] ... Different kinds of festivals and feasts of merit are celebrated by ...26 KB (4,616 words) - 19:04, 26 February 2014
- music, dance and poetry. Festivals of all faiths were celebrated. Having amassed a great fortune as a mercenary soldier he lived in an entirely ...10 KB (1,626 words) - 13:00, 18 January 2014
- put, wrestling etc. are organized during the festivals. ... works, religious ceremonies and cultural festivals including dance and music ...45 KB (7,614 words) - 22:48, 25 January 2015
- Between those two dates there were various festivals including a Panchakalyana pooja. As days passed on the influx of pilgrims went on increasing gradually ...20 KB (3,348 words) - 10:18, 19 February 2018
- [[Category:Festivals |D ]] [[Category:Jammu & Kashmir |D ]] = Dashhar festival = [http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/thousands-throng-in-centurys-first ...6 KB (977 words) - 12:33, 30 January 2017
- ” said the judges, referring to the fact that festivals belonging to one community are also celebrated by other people in the country. “Considering ...29 KB (4,860 words) - 17:16, 7 January 2023
- for a week each for Holi, Dussehra and Diwali festivals. The high courts work for 210 days because they have shorter summer and winter breaks ...289 KB (47,288 words) - 16:56, 14 May 2024
- word and act practised at the Holî and Kajarî festivals in Upper India, which are both closely connected with the control of the weather. Among the ...46 KB (7,593 words) - 22:25, 13 April 2014
- Even J&K Tourism department organize melas (festivals) in April every year to promote tourism realizing the tourist potential of the area. ...489 KB (61,606 words) - 09:22, 10 February 2014
- for cows and feed them sump- tuously at festivals. Every Agharia has a giwu or spiritual guide who whispers the mantra or sacred verse into his ...15 KB (2,575 words) - 04:50, 26 October 2016
- walking round the sacred post, keep the Hindu festivals, and feed Brahmans on the tenth day after a death. They have a priest whom they call their Kazi ...17 KB (3,019 words) - 11:04, 4 May 2014
- Hindu deities, and observe the principal Hindu festivals. The Jain and Hindu sections of a subcaste have consequently, as a rule, no objection to taking ...62 KB (10,999 words) - 00:29, 18 June 2017
- husband. The Jain Agarwalas observe the Hindu festivals and employ Brahmans for their ceremonies. In Nimar the caste have some curious taboos. It is ...8 KB (1,465 words) - 00:32, 18 June 2017
- Rakshabandhan and Holi festivals ; they say that at the Diwali the last Tirthakar Mahavira attained beatitude and the gods rained down jewels ...8 KB (1,452 words) - 20:35, 9 February 2014
- by the members of the tribe. They observe all the Hindu festivals, the most favourite with them being Holi in Falgun (March). Men and women throw ...92 KB (16,206 words) - 11:08, 27 July 2017
- the leaf-cups and plates used by all Hindus at festivals. In the Central Provinces these are made from the large leaves of the mdJiul creeper ...7 KB (1,247 words) - 18:45, 17 November 2016
- flesh. Their principal festivals are Dassera in Aswin (October- November) and Basant Panchmi in Magh (February-March), which are celebrated with ...26 KB (4,435 words) - 21:44, 7 December 2015
- emblems of their calling on the principal festivals. The former is waved over ... festivals. After he has received the usual courtesies he pro- duces ...42 KB (7,648 words) - 23:48, 11 October 2014
- that the men danced before the different festivals and before battles. The ... Muhammadan sainls and Khandoba. Their chief festivals are ...60 KB (10,543 words) - 22:04, 7 December 2015
- their weaving implements at the Diwali and HoH festivals, and feed the crows in Kunwar (September-October) as representing the spirits of their ...7 KB (1,144 words) - 20:14, 11 March 2014
- observe some of the ordinary Hindu festivals, as the Anant Chaturthi, and some of them employ Brahmans to read the Satya Narayan Katha, ...18 KB (3,131 words) - 05:27, 6 April 2018
- =Festivals of the Community= [http://sybscd.blogspot.in/2012/03/dawoodi ... The various festivals are:- New year- On the first night of the year ...43 KB (7,220 words) - 11:32, 29 March 2023
- in which they reside, and observe the principal festivals. In Saugor the Chamars have a family god, known as Marri, who is represented by a lump ...47 KB (8,418 words) - 12:43, 15 April 2015
- by a stone outside the village. At festivals they offer animal sacrifices to their agricultural implements, as hoes and hatchets. They employ ...8 KB (1,415 words) - 18:06, 12 March 2014
- it as a mystic symbol in some of their sacred festivals, and the Romans introduced the custom of hanging an umbrella in the basilican churches ...25 KB (4,427 words) - 22:07, 1 November 2017
- and they ^'°"" also observe the ordinary Hindu festivals. At Diwali they worship their goats by dyeing their horns and touching their feet. One Bahram ...24 KB (4,321 words) - 19:11, 30 December 2014
- Chakaran land, receiving presents at all village festivals. The presence of the washerman is indispensable at marriages of the higher classes ...13 KB (2,386 words) - 03:56, 29 November 2017
- in betel-leaf, and she will love him. Their chief festivals are the Holi and Diwali, at which they drink a great deal. The dead are buried or burnt as ...19 KB (3,448 words) - 07:36, 8 May 2014
- Kunwar, on the eighth day of each fortnight, two festivals are held. At the first each girl in the family wears a thread containing ...16 KB (2,875 words) - 03:04, 22 November 2016
- title of Haji. 19. Festi- The principal festivals are the Muharram and the ... only leads the public prayers at the Id festivals and keeps registers of ...68 KB (12,263 words) - 22:44, 26 September 2017
- guidance and for curing diseases. All major festivals are celebrated. The dead are cremated and a period of death pollution observed; ancestor worship ...25 KB (4,253 words) - 06:01, 23 June 2015
- and incense when these diseases are prevalent festivals. among men or cattle, but if the epidemic does not abate after a time, they abuse the goddess ...12 KB (2,139 words) - 08:17, 14 February 2014
- They observe the Hindu fasts and festivals, and at Dasahra worship their musical instruments and the weaver's loom. Being impure, they do not ...11 KB (1,952 words) - 14:34, 24 November 2016
- village t j° e n c ° ste musicians at festivals. In the Central Provinces ... who attend as musicians at weddings and festivals and also perform menial ...13 KB (2,278 words) - 08:45, 14 February 2014
- right to certain privileges on all public festivals and ceremonies, which are jealously guarded. A breach on either side leads to faction fights ...39 KB (6,667 words) - 12:55, 16 February 2014
- community has decided to ban it during festivals and events and fine violators ... “We have vowed not to allow consumption of liquor during festivals ...9 KB (1,330 words) - 07:00, 27 March 2023
- The Hindu festivals most generally observed by all sects are the Holī and [S. 209] the Dasara, which respectively marrk the seasons of the vernal ...13 KB (2,212 words) - 13:02, 16 February 2014
- observe all Hindu festivals. Brahmans are engaged on ceremonial and religious occasions. ==Disposal of the Dead== The dead are either buried, or burnt, ...15 KB (2,604 words) - 16:42, 5 September 2023
- to go about naked, and at the religious festivals they would go in procession naked to bathe in the river. At Amarnath in the Punjab they would ...23 KB (4,138 words) - 10:37, 15 July 2015
- They are worshipped at the g101 annual festivals, and also at weddings. When a man or woman dies without children their spirits are known as ...13 KB (2,432 words) - 18:25, 15 February 2014
- occurs at Dasahra, Shimga and other leading festivals, when the village deity is taken out of the temple and carried in procession. On these occasions, in ...16 KB (2,821 words) - 19:06, 15 February 2014
- mosque. They observe Muhammadan rites and festivals generally, and are permitted to smoke from the huqqas of other Muhammadans. They are governed ...9 KB (1,595 words) - 11:07, 11 March 2014
- Siva, and their principal festival is Festivals. ^e Shivratri, when they ... but they observe many of the other Hindu festivals, such as the Janmashtami ...40 KB (7,032 words) - 04:33, 29 November 2017
- and other festivals come earlier every year by about eleven days. == Intercalary months.== In order to reconcile the lunar and solar years the ...47 KB (8,302 words) - 17:59, 1 March 2019
- the nine days prior to the Ramnaomi and Dasahra festivals in March and September. Some of them carry their devotion so far as to grow the plants of wheat ...9 KB (1,680 words) - 21:36, 15 February 2014
- festivals, and a little ghi is poured out in her honour by way of incense. When the juari harvest is gathered, dalias or cakes of boiled juari ...15 KB (2,659 words) - 22:04, 15 February 2014
- Mata or the goddess of smallpox. On their chief festivals of Hareli and Dasahra all iron implements are washed and placed together in the ...21 KB (3,687 words) - 23:02, 26 November 2016
- well. Races of war-horses were held at his festivals on 14th March and 27th February, and a great race on the Ides of October when the winner ...56 KB (9,999 words) - 12:55, 14 November 2017
- and at the Holi and Diwali festivals. Twice a year they venerate the pen and ink, the implements of their profession, to which they owe their ...96 KB (15,640 words) - 13:22, 9 December 2017
- annually with rice on the harvest and Dasahra festivals. ... to. Festi- The tribe have three principal festivals, known as the Semi Jatra ...39 KB (7,063 words) - 10:39, 16 February 2014
- are sung in their praise on important festivals, the members of the family ... is sup- posed to recover. The chief festivals of the Kirs are Diwali ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 16:13, 19 May 2023
- They observe the ordinary festivals, and like other Hindus cease to observe one on which a death has occurred in the family, until some happy ...19 KB (3,268 words) - 21:44, 27 November 2016
- fishing as well as Karbha, Bahan and other common festivals. A Brahmin priest will officiate at religious activities as well as rituals associated with ...18 KB (3,165 words) - 08:00, 28 August 2022
- cholera and smallpox. The Korwas have three festivals : the Deothan is observed on the full moon day of Pus (December), and all their gods are worshipped ...22 KB (3,847 words) - 22:33, 27 November 2016
- and in the Sambalpur District they will take food together at festivals. But this degree of intimacy may simply have arisen from their common ...13 KB (2,347 words) - 22:29, 6 October 2017
- other than animal sacrifices are made to him on festivals and on the celebration of a marriage. 5. Occupa- Those of the caste who are Kablrpanthis ...14 KB (2,399 words) - 22:25, 27 November 2016
- rites of one of her festivals, the Thesmophoria, bear out the view that originally the pig was an embodiment of the corn- goddess herself, either ...33 KB (5,717 words) - 23:09, 27 November 2016
- wheat and rice, butter and sugar are delicacies reserved for festivals. As a rule only water is drunk, but the caste ^ indulge in country liquor ...83 KB (15,086 words) - 23:12, 27 November 2016
- known as taldq. The caste observe the Muhammadan festivals, and have some favourite saints of their own to whom they make offerings of gulgula, a kind ...14 KB (2,536 words) - 12:37, 8 November 2017
- give her expensive clothes to wear at festivals and her own people ... northern Districts, and rice is kept for festivals. The millets are made into ...111 KB (20,326 words) - 19:14, 15 April 2023
- women to colour them red or pink at marriages and festivals. This is done by the barber's wife, who will colour the feet of the whole party, at the same ...19 KB (3,392 words) - 23:48, 27 November 2016
- princi- pally observe the Holi and Dasahra festivals and the days of the new and full moon. On the festival of Nag-Panchmi they make an image of a snake ...42 KB (7,477 words) - 19:59, 11 January 2018
- the new rice and at the Holi and Dasahra festivals. They dance the karma dance in the months of Asarh and Kunwar or at the beginning and end of ...13 KB (2,287 words) - 17:11, 28 November 2016
- festivals. Sometimes it is the privilege of being escorted on certain occasions by armed retainers, sometimes that of having a trumpet sounded ...9 KB (1,466 words) - 18:51, 28 November 2016
- weddings, the festivals of Shivratri and of Akhatij, and a day each in the months of Magh (January) and Phagun (February). This rule, however ...10 KB (1,854 words) - 09:19, 22 August 2021
- the festivals of Gokul Ashtami in August and Datta- Jayantri in December. They consider the month of Aghan (November) as holy, because Krishna ...16 KB (2,861 words) - 18:13, 17 February 2014
- with him, she makes brief visits for festivals or on other ... The caste beat drums at village festivals, and castrate 6. Occupacattle, ...16 KB (2,749 words) - 19:10, 28 November 2016
- Hindu festivals, they employ a Brahman to write the Plli Chhitthi or yellow note fixing the date of a marriage. They call themselves by Hindu ...6 KB (1,106 words) - 20:01, 17 February 2014
- and festivals.-^ Mr. Crooke is of opinion that they are undoubtedly an offshoot of the great Dom caste who are little better than sweepers.- ...5 KB (811 words) - 20:20, 28 November 2016
- Dasahra and Diwali festivals they wash and revere their implements, the razor, scissors and nail-pruners. They pay regard to omens. It is unpropitious ...49 KB (9,000 words) - 21:21, 17 February 2014
- Mahadeva propitiatory festivals are held in his honour. At ... 2 Bengali Festivals and Holidays, Review, vol. v, pp. 59, 60. ...27 KB (4,786 words) - 10:05, 17 August 2021
- for themselves, and at dances, festivals and other social gatherings ... The principal festivals are the Sarhul, celebrated when 19. Festithe ...51 KB (9,216 words) - 20:58, 29 November 2016
- Kablr. Some of the Kabirhas observe the Hindu festivals, and the Saktahas, as already stated, have the same religious practices as other Hindus ...14 KB (2,466 words) - 22:26, 17 February 2014
- tents at the Dasahra and Diwali festivals, and on the former ^ Lectures on Criminal Tribes of the C.P., p. I9- occasion clean their hunting implements ...27 KB (4,902 words) - 21:50, 29 November 2016
- festivals. by numbering posts or trees. When rain is wanted the people ... festivals of the Parjas are the Hareli ^ or feast of the new ...19 KB (3,605 words) - 09:17, 18 February 2014
- as impure. At their marriage festivals, Mr. Gayer notes, boys are dressed up as girls and made to dance in public, but they do not use drums or ...20 KB (3,380 words) - 19:35, 30 November 2016
- sales in the country pick up again with festivals. It is Onam that kick-starts ... Dhanteras, Diwali and ahead of most other festivals too. Little wonder then ...72 KB (11,033 words) - 21:06, 7 October 2023
- on ordinary occasions, but not at festivals or at auspicious ' Temple and Fallon's Hindustani Proverbs. periods. Muhammadans rather affect black ...9 KB (1,492 words) - 13:01, 8 November 2017
- festivals of the countryside. Near the north-west angle of the bazar, where there is a tomb of a third brother of Adham Khan, a country road leads ...98 KB (16,315 words) - 03:56, 8 May 2024
- and bankers. Only four annual festivals in honour of Lakshmi are kept, that on the Diwali being omitted. Manasa Devi is propitiated with great ...52 KB (9,033 words) - 13:03, 10 November 2017
