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Dooars & Terai · Eastern Himalaya & Brahmaputra Belt

त्योहार

त्योहारकबक्या होता है
Karam PujaBhadra, August–SeptemberThe central festival of the tea-garden and Adivasi villages. A branch of the karam tree is cut and planted in the courtyard, unmarried women fast, the story of the karam is told through the night, jhumur is danced until dawn, and the branch is immersed in a river at first light.
SarhulChaitra, March–April, when the sal flowersThe Oraon and Munda new year, celebrated at the sarna grove with an offering of sal flowers by the pahan. No ploughing or sowing takes place before it, so the festival is also the agricultural start date.
Tusu Parab and Makar SankrantiThrough Poush, ending mid-JanuaryA month of women's songs to Tusu, ending with the decorated frame carried to the river and floated at Makar Sankranti, alongside bathing, fairs and pithe. New verses are composed every year.
BwisaguMid-AprilThe Bodo-Kachari new year, kept in Mech villages at the forest fringe with the kham drum, Bagurumba dancing, and rites for the cattle before anything else in the household.
Manasa Puja and BishahariSravan and Bhadra, July–SeptemberWorship of the snake goddess with all-night Padmapuran singing, in a landscape where flooded paddy and snakebite were an ordinary risk of the working year.
Jalpesh Sravani MelaSravan, July–AugustA month-long fair at the Jalpesh temple, with pilgrims walking in file with Teesta water on shoulder poles and a large trade fair attached.
Dasain, Tihar and Durga PujaOctober–NovemberThe Nepali-speaking and Bengali festival calendars run in the same weeks across the same towns — Deusi and Bhailo parties in the Terai villages, and pandals in Siliguri, Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar.
Poush Sankranti and the pithe seasonMid-JanuaryRice-flour pithe made in every kitchen with the new harvest, cane gur and coconut, and the winter haats at their fullest.
Toto and Rabha community observancesVaries by communitySmall-community calendars kept at Totopara and in the Rabha villages, with rites for the household deities and for the forest, conducted by community priests rather than in temples.

Dooars & Terai का त्योहार कैलेंडर — क्या मनाया जाता है, कब पड़ता है और क्या होता है। (9)