This document provides a list of major festivals celebrated in different states across India. It includes festivals such as Hemis Festival in Jammu & Kashmir, Kullu Dussehra in Himachal Pradesh, Vaisakhi in Punjab, Kartik Fair in Haryana, Gangaur in Rajasthan, Tarnetar Mela in Gujarat, Ganesh Chaturthi in Maharashtra, Maha Kumbh Mela in Uttar Pradesh, Sao Joao Festival in Goa, Pattadakal Dance Festival in Karnataka, Pongal in Tamil Nadu, Pitr-Paksha in Andhra Pradesh, Raja Parba in Odisha, D

1. FAIR & FESTIVAL IN
INDIA
PRESENTED BY:
BHAGWAT KUMAR

2. 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

3. CONTINUE………
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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

4. CONTINUE…..
• 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

5. 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.

6. 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"

7. 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 ...

8. 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 .

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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).

12. 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:

13. 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.
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14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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.

20. 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

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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'.

24. 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.

25. 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.

26. 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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