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FESTIVALS OF KUMAON |
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In India religious beliefs are very well knit in the society . Here is perhaps no phenomenon as complex as
'culture'. In a manner of speaking, culture is everything in a particular society, and one can as easily speak of the culture of Hindustani
music, Kumaoni cuisines and Bengali "bhadralok" society as one can of the culture of the working-class, Hindi film-viewers, rickshaw-pullers, and India's modernizing elites. Indian culture is characterised by the magnitude of festivals celebrated. The festivals are classified as regional, seasonal, national, social and of course religious. Indian festivals denote colour, vivacity, ebullience, appetizing food and a variety of prayers and rituals.
Travelers and tourists are surprised to see such a multiplicity of the festivities that enrich the Indian culture and cleanse the spirit at the same time enriching the Indian experience. In kumaon most of the festivals are celebrated on the basis of Hindi Calender means on the basis of sak samvat and hindi month like chait , baisakh .That's why there is mo definite date for most of the festivals. The fair and folk festivals of Kumaon are very colorful and distinctive, and are the products of various natural, social and culture factors. The people of Kumaon also celebrate all the major Indian festivals.
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