Tusu Festival

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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]

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Crowd in Tusu Festival
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Observed by Tribal people of Eastern India
TypeCultural
Significanceworship of Goddess Tusmani
Celebrationscrops harvesting
FrequencyAnnually
Related to Makar Sankranti

Etymology

There are different theories about the origin of the word Tusu. Many believe that the word 'tusu' originates from rice bran, which is called Tush [2]

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References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. 1 2 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 25 May 2025.
  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.
  5. ↑ "G Plus | Guwahati's Foremost Media Network | Guwahati News".
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