Paper I · 14 Society, Culture, Heritage, Arts & Literature of Telangana · 14.3 Festivals and jataras

14.3.1 Festivals: 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.

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Key terms

  • Bathukamma
  • Engili Pula Bathukamma
  • Saddula Bathukamma
  • Tangedu
  • Gunugu
  • Gauramma
  • Boddemma
  • Bonalu
  • Ashadha
  • Mahankali
  • Lashkar Bonalu
  • Ujjaini Mahankali
  • Golconda Jagadamba
  • Lal Darwaza
  • Potharaju
  • Rangam
  • Ghatam
  • state festival June 2014
  • Peerla Panduga
  • Muharram
  • Ashura
  • Bibi-ka-Alam
  • Badshahi Ashurkhana
  • Sadar
  • Dunnapothula Panduga
  • Alai Balai
  • Teej
  • Sevalal Jayanti
  • Mrigasira
  • fish prasadam
  • Dasara
  • Jammi
  • Palapitta
  • Sri Rama Navami
  • Bhadrachalam
  • Ugadi
  • Sankranti
  • Kite Festival

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