Tusu Festival is a folk festival held on the last day of the Hindu month of Paush, i.e., Makar Sankranti. It is mainly river centric.It is a unifying form of common faith and belief of the agrarian society in joy of harvesting crops.[1] At the end of the festivities, the immersion of the image of Tusu is done vividly and with songs which have a melancholic ring. Rural fairs are also organised during the festival.[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 by
Tribal people of Eastern India
Type
Cultural
Significance
worship of Goddess Tusmani
Celebrations
crops harvesting
Frequency
Annually
Related to
Makar Sankranti
^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.
^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 17 May 2024.
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