Tusu Festival

Tusu Festival is a folk festival during Makar Sankranti.[1] It is mainly river centric. It is a unifying form of common faith and belief of the agrarian society in joy of harvesting crops.[2] The festival Tusu, is mostly celebrated in Southwest of West Bengal, Southeast of Jharkhand, Northeastern Odisha as well in the Tea-State of Assam.[3][4][5]

Crowd in Tusu Festival
Tusu parab
Observed byTribal people of Eastern India
TypeCultural
Significanceworship of Goddess Tusmani
Celebrationscrops harvesting
FrequencyAnnually
Related toMakar Sankranti

See also

References

  1. ^ Anjalika Mukhopadhyay (2012). "Tusu Festival". In Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 16 February 2026.
  2. ^ Kundu, Satabdi; Islam, Md. Mohidul; Nandi, Shyamal Kumar (Dec 2016). "Traditional Festivity of Tusu Puja: An Anthropological Appraisal". Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India. 65 (2): 333–340. doi:10.1177/2277436x20160211. ISSN 2277-436X. S2CID 217935042 – via SAGE journals.
  3. ^ McDaniel, June (Aug 2002). "O Ṭuṣu Mā: Self-Expression, Oral History, and Social Commentary for the Jharkhand Goddess". International Journal of Hindu Studies. 6 (2). No. 2. Springer: 175–197. doi:10.1007/s11407-002-0007-7. JSTOR 20106813. S2CID 144677997.
  4. ^ Bhattacharya, Dr. Shreya; Kuiry, Hare Krishna (2021). "Death to Deification: Reading the Many Tales of Goddess Tusu" (PDF). vidyasagar.ac.in. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
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