इस क्षेत्र का अनुवाद अभी इस भाषा में नहीं हुआ है, इसलिए यह अंग्रेज़ी में दिखाया जा रहा है।
Rarh · Middle & Lower Gangetic Plain
त्योहार
| त्योहार | कब | क्या होता है |
|---|---|---|
| Poush Mela, Santiniketan | From the seventh day of Poush, around 23 December | A fair on the Visva-Bharati grounds running since the late nineteenth century, with Baul singing as its defining sound, alongside craft stalls from across the tract. It grew out of a Brahmo commemoration and became the region's largest winter gathering. |
| Joydev Kenduli Mela | Makar Sankranti, mid-January | Three days on the bank of the Ajay, with Bauls, Fakirs and Vaishnav singers camped in akhras along the river, bathing at dawn and singing through the night. It is the single most important date in the Baul calendar. |
| Tusu Parab | The month of Poush, ending at Makar Sankranti | Decorated Tusu frames — chaudal — are carried to the rivers and immersed across Purulia, Bankura and the Jharkhand side, with songs composed fresh each year by the girls who sing them. Fairs are held at the immersion ghats, and the Tusu songs are a genuine annual record of the tract's concerns. |
| Chaitra Parba and the Chhau season | Mid-April, at the end of Chaitra | The Sun festival at which Purulia's Chhau is traditionally performed, with troupes moving between villages for several nights and competitive performances judged by local committees. It is the form's own calendar, and performances outside it are exhibitions rather than the thing itself. |
| Gajan and Charak | The last days of Chaitra, mid-April | Shiva's festival, marked with fasting devotees called bhaktas, processional Bolan troupes, masked figures and at some sites body-piercing austerities at the Charak pole. It is the region's most physically demanding observance and the one least mediated by priests. |
| Sohrai and Baha | Sohrai in January after the harvest; Baha at the sal blossom in spring | The two principal Santal festivals — Sohrai for the cattle, with the animals washed, oiled and garlanded and the house walls repainted, and Baha for the flowering of the sal, celebrated at the jaher than. Both are danced at the village akhra for days. |
| Bishnupur Mela | Late December | A crafts, music and handloom fair in the temple town, with Baluchari, Panchmura terracotta and dokra sold directly by makers, and Bishnupur gharana recitals in the evenings. |
| Jhapan | The last day of Shravan, around mid-August | A snake festival in the Bishnupur and Bankura tract, with Manasa worship and processions in which snake handlers carry live snakes through the streets. It belongs to a monsoon month when snakebite is a real risk, and the ritual addresses it directly. |
| Durga Puja in the old houses | Ashwin, September–October | The Rarh's Durga Puja is dominated by bonedi and zamindari household pujas rather than by street pandals, several of them continuing in the same families for centuries. The Mrinmoyee temple puja at Bishnupur is claimed by the town as one of the oldest continuous observances in Bengal. |
| Basanta Utsav | Dol Purnima, March | Santiniketan's spring festival, choreographed by Tagore as a campus event with song, dance and coloured powder, and now attended by crowds far larger than the campus was designed for. |
Rarh का त्योहार कैलेंडर — क्या मनाया जाता है, कब पड़ता है और क्या होता है। (10)