Tusu Festival

Tusu Festival is a folk festival during Makar Sankranti. ^[1] It is mainly river centric. It is a unifying form of common faith and belief of the agrarian society in joy of harvesting crops. ^[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

See also

• Bhadu

References

1. Anjalika Mukhopadhyay (2012). "Tusu Festival". In Islam, Sirajul; 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 22 December 2025.
2. 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.
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".

External links

• Bhattacharji, Shreya; Kuiry, Hare Krishna. "Death to Deification: Reading the Many Tales of Goddess Tusu". Journal of the Department of English. 24. ISSN   0973-3671.
• "Tusu - A tribal Festival". YouTube . Ministry of tribal affairs, Govt of India.