इस क्षेत्र का अनुवाद अभी इस भाषा में नहीं हुआ है, इसलिए यह अंग्रेज़ी में दिखाया जा रहा है।
Chota Nagpur Plateau · Central Highlands & Forest Belt
त्योहार
| त्योहार | कब | क्या होता है |
|---|---|---|
| Sarhul | Chaitra Shukla Tritiya (March–April) | The plateau's principal festival, observed by Oraon, Munda and Sadan households. Sal blossom is offered in the sarna grove by the pahan, who also fills earthen pots with water at night and reads the fall in level next morning as a forecast for the monsoon. Nothing of the new season may be eaten or worn before the offering. Processions run from the grove to the akhra with jadur dancing. |
| Baha | Phalgun (February–March) | The Santal flower festival, at which the naeke offers the first sal and mahua blossom at the jaher. Until he has, no one may pick, wear or use them. Danced with the tamak' and tumdak' pair. |
| Sohrai and Bandna | Kartik Amavasya, at the harvest (October–November) | The cattle festival — animals washed, oiled, horns painted, garlanded and driven over a threshold, with songs addressed to them. It is also the week the Sohrai wall painting is done. Kurmi households call it Bandna; the ritual is the same. |
| Karam | Bhadrapad Ekadashi (August–September) | A branch of the karam tree is cut, brought in procession and planted in the courtyard, and unmarried women dance and sing round it through the night while the Karam story is told. Observed across communities and across the plateau's languages. |
| Tusu Parab and Makar | The month of Poush, closing at Makar Sankranti in January | A month-long household observance in which Tusu, treated as a daughter, is kept and sung to nightly, then carried out on a decorated chaudal frame and immersed. New Tusu verses are composed every year, and the fairs on the closing day are the largest winter gatherings on the eastern rim. |
| Hul Diwas | 30 June | The anniversary of the Santal Hul of 1855, observed at Bhognadih and across Santhal Pargana with processions, song and public readings. |
| Chaitra Parva | April, around Chaitra Sankranti | The Seraikela Chhau festival — several nights of masked dance, preceded by weeks of ritual observance by the performers. Purulia and Mayurbhanj hold their own Chaitra festivals in the same fortnight. |
| Mage Parab | Magh (January) | The principal Ho festival of Kolhan, marking the close of the agricultural year, with a village fast, a sacrifice at the sacred grove, and several days of feasting and dancing after it. |
| Shravani Mela | Shravan (July–August) | The Deoghar pilgrimage, in which lakhs of walkers carry Ganga water from Sultanganj on shoulder-poles to the Baidyanath shrine. It belongs to the plateau's northern fringe and draws overwhelmingly from the plains. |
| Jani Shikar | At long intervals, traditionally once in twelve years | The Oraon women's hunt, in which women dress in men's clothing and go out with the hunting party, held in memory of the defence of Rohtasgarh. It is observed rarely and its dates are set by the parha councils. |
| Dasae | Ashwin (September–October) | A Santal observance in which men travel village to village in groups, singing and dancing and receiving grain, running alongside the Dashain and Durga observances of the plateau towns. |
Chota Nagpur Plateau का त्योहार कैलेंडर — क्या मनाया जाता है, कब पड़ता है और क्या होता है। (11)