Paper I · 14 Society, Culture, Heritage, Arts & Literature of Telangana · TGPSC MPSO / ASO
14.3 Festivals and jataras notes
2 notes, in reading order.
- 14.3.1Festivals: Bathukamma, Bonalu, Peerla Panduga (Muharram) and other celebrations
Telangana's two signature festivals are Bathukamma, the nine-day women's festival of flowers before Dasara, and Bonalu, the Ashadha-month offering of food pots to the Mother Goddess; both were made State festivals in June 2014, and around them sit Peerla Panduga, Sadar, Teej and the all-India festivals in their Telangana form.
Standard · 19 min · Full course - 14.3.2Jataras and fairs: Medaram Sammakka–Saralamma, Nagoba, Komuravelli, Edupayala and others
A jatara is a temple or shrine fair tied to a fixed lunar date; Telangana's greatest is the biennial Koya festival of Sammakka–Saralamma at Medaram (Mulugu), followed by the Gond Nagoba jatara at Keslapur (Adilabad), the Yadav Peddagattu jatara (Suryapet) and the Mallanna jataras of Komuravelli and Inavolu.
Standard · 17 min · Full course
Practise Festivals and jataras. Questions with answers explained, from the same topics.
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