FAIR & FESTIVAL IN INDIAPRESENTED BY:BHAGWAT KUMAR

LIST OF STATES AND ITS FESTIVALS

• Jammu & Kashmir Hemis Festival, Leh

• Himachal Kullu Dussehra, Shivratri• Punjab Vaisakhi, Guru Parab, Lohri• Haryana Kartik Fair , Gugga Naumi• Rajasthan Bikaner Camel Festival,Gangaur• Gujarat Tarnetar Mela, Kutch Festival • Maharashtra Ganesh Chaturthi• Uttar Pradesh Maha Kumbh Mela,Taj Mahaotsav• Goa Sao Joao Festival• Uttarakhand Magh Mela, Uttarayani Mela

State Festivals

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• • Karnataka Makar Sankramana, Pattadakal Dance Festival

• Tamil Nadu Kambam Festival, Pongal• Andhra Pradesh Pitr-Paksha- Mahalaya Amavasya,

Noopuraraavam • Odisha Raja Parba , Ashokastami

• Jharkhand Karma, Sarhul• West Bengal Dussehra• Bihar Chhat Puja • Assam   Bihu,  Elephant Festival

State Festivals

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• Madhya Pradesh Tejaji Fair, Khajuraho Dance Festival.• Nagaland Moatsu Festival, Hornbill Festival.• Kerala Onam• Meghalaya Khasis,garos• Puducherry International Yoga festival• Sikkim Saga Dawa • Arunachal Pradesh Losar

State Festivals

JAMMU & KASHMIR

The Hemis Festival is dedicated to Lord Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) venerated as the Dance Performance at Hemis Monastery representative reincarnate of Buddha. He is believed to have been born on the 10th day of the fifth month of the Monkey year as

predicted by the Buddha Shakyamuni.

HIMACHAL

Maha Shivaratri is a Hindu festival celebrated annually in honour of the God Shiva. The festival, which means "The Great Night of Shiva", is also

popularly known as "Shivaratri"

PUNJAB

Vaisakhi also known as Baisakhi, Vaishakhi, or

Vasakhi refers to the harvest festival of the Punjab region, the Punjabi new year falling on the first day of Vaisakh which is the first solar month of the Punjabi calendar, Khalsa Sirjana Divas which marks the birth of the

Khalsa in the year ...

HARAYNA

Gugga (also known as Gugga Pir, Gugga

Jaharpir, Gugga Chohan, Gugga

Rana, Gugga Vir and various others) is venerated for protection against snake bite and is the folk deity . He

is known as Gogaji in and Gugga Ji  Haryana .

RAJASATHAN

Gangaur is colourful and one of the most important festivals of people of 

Rajasthan and is observed throughout the state with

great fervour and devotion by womenfolk who worship Gauri

, the consort of Lord Shiva during March–April. It is the

celebration of spring, harvest and marital fidelity

GUJARAT

Rann Utsav is an awesome festival of Kutch, Gujarat, India. It is a Carnival of

Music, Dance, nature beauty of White Rann and much more then that when visit

under the full Moon. 

MAHARASHTRA

Ganesh Chaturthi (also known as Vināyaka Chaturthi, Gaṇēśa

Chaturthī or Vināyaka Chavithi) is the Hindu festival celebrated in honour of the elephant-headed

god, Ganesha. This is a very auspicious day celebrated to pray

to the god so that every new activity that is started is

successfully completed without any obstacles (Vighna = Obstacle).

UTTAR PRADESH

Kumbh Mela or Kumbha Mela  is a mass Hindu 

pilgrimage of faith in which Hindus gather to bathe in a

sacred river. Traditionally, four fairs are widely recognized as

the Kumbh Melas:

UTTARAKHAND

The Magh Mela is one of the greatest annual religious affairs for Hindus.

Hindu mythology considers the origin of the Magh Mela to be the beginning

of the Universe. An important occasion, the Magh Mela is held

every year on the banks of Triveni Sangam (the confluence of the three

great rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati) in Prayag near Allahabad

in Uttar Pradesh.Read more at

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JHARKHAND

Sarhul is celebrated during spring season and the Saal trees

get new flowers on their branches. It is a worship of the village deity who is considered

to be the protector of the tribes. People sing and dance a lot

when the new flowers appear. The deities are worshiped with

saal flowers. 

KARNATAKA

Pattadakal is a small town located in the state of

Karnataka, India. Every year in the month of January/

February, a famous cultural dance event is held here

that is known as Pattadakal Dance Festival.

TAMILNADU

Thai Pongal is one of the most important festivals

celebrated by Tamil people[1][2] in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu,  Thai Pongal corresponds to Makara Sankranthi, the winter

harvest festival celebrated throughout India

ANDHRA PRADESH

Pitru Paksha is considered by Hindus to be inauspicious,

given the death rite performed during the ceremony, known as Shraddha ortarpan. In

southern and western India, it falls in the 2nd paksha

(forthnight)Hindu lunar month of 

Bhadrapada (September)and follows the forthnight immediately after the 

Ganesh festival

ODISHA

Raja Parba or Mithuna Sankranti (Odia:  ରଜ ପର୍ବ�) is a

four-day-long festival and the second day signifies beginning of the solar

month of Mithuna from, which the season of rains starts. It inaugurates and welcomes the agricultural year all over Odisha, which marks, through biological

symbolism

WEST BENGAL

Dussehra (Vijaya Dashami, Dasara, or Dashain) is a

Hindu festival that celebrates the victory of

good over evil. It is a gazetted holiday in India,

which is marked on the 10th day of the bright half

(Shukla Paksha) of the month of Ashvin

(Ashwayuja), according to the Hindu calendar.

BIHAR

Chhath is an ancient Hindu Vedic festival dedicated to the Hindu Sun God, Surya and Chhathi Maiya. The

Chhath Puja is performed in order to thank Surya for sustaining life on earth and to request the granting of

certain wishes

ASSAM

The Bihus have been celebrated in Assam since

ancient times. Each Bihu coincides with a

distinctive phase in the farming calendar. The most important and colourful of

the three Bihu festival is the Spring festival "Bohag Bihu" or Rongali Bihu celebrated in

the middle of April.

MADHYA PRADESH

Khajuraho dance festival, organised by the Madhya Pradesh Kala Parishad, is a one-week-long festival of classical dances held annually against the spectacular backdrop of the magnificently lit Khajuraho temples in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The Khajuraho Festival of Dance is conducted

every year of February from the 20th to the 26th.

NAGALAND

The Hornbill festival is a celebration held every

year in the first week of December, in Nagaland,

North-east India. It is also called as the

'Festival of Festivals'.

KERALA

Onam (Malayalam) is a festival celebrated in

Kerala, India. It is also the state festival of Kerala

with State holidays on 4 days starting

from Onam Eve (Uthradom) to the

3rd Onam Day.

MEGHALYA

Dance is central to the culture of Khasi life, and a part of the rites of passage. Dances are

performed in Shnong (village), a Raid (group of villages), and

a Hima (conglomeration of Raids). Some festivals includes Ka Shad

Suk Mynsiem, Ka Pom-Blang Nongkrem, Ka-Shad Shyngwiang-

Thangiap, Ka-Shad-Kynjoh Khaskain, Ka Bam Khana Shnong, Umsan Nongkharai, Shad Beh Sier.

SIKKIM

Saga Dawa is the festival celebrated to

commemorate the birth anniversary of this great

spiritual leader. Government declares holiday on this day.

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