Fair & Festival
Makar Parab (Tusu Parab)
This festival primarily symbolizes the worship of agriculture and harvesting. It is held during the winter season (January). The villagers pray for prosperity to the god.
Saharul
Sahrul is celebrated in the spring season. It is a festival of worshiping nature. Through this festival, the nature is greeted.
Karam Parab
The festival is celebrated in “Sukla Ekadashi” of the Bengali month “Bhadra”. This festival is about prosperity in agriculture. “Jawa Geet” or “Karam Geet” is the principal part of this festival.
Indra Puja
This festival symbolizes worship of Lord Indra with an expectation for good rainfall resulting in prosperous crops. This is primarily a festival patronized by the Royal families of Jhargram. Parva Dance is one of the most attractive parts of this festival.
Bandna (Saharai)
Bandna is a festival to express gratitude to the animals used in the agricultural activities. Not only animals, but the agricultural devices also get worshiped. “Ahira Geet” is an integral part of this festival. This festival is celebrated on “Kartika Amavasya” of the Bengali calendar.
Baha Banga
Baha festival is one of the important festivals of the santhal community. It starts on the day after “Dol Purima”. The worship takes place at the “Jaher Than”. The dance associated with this festival is called “Baha Dance”.
Mah Mare
This festival started in Bengali month “Baisakh” (April) and continues up to seventh day of “Asharh” (June). The worship takes place in “Jaher Than”. The dance forms associated with it is “Parab Dance.”
Durga puja
Durga puja is regarded as the most important festival of Jhargram during in the Bengali month of Aswin (September-October). The town is dresses up in a new look for the five days of the festival. The celebration lasts for five days starting from Maha Shashti (the sixth day) and ends with Bijoya dashami (the tenth day). The first day of the celebration starts with Maha-Shashti, which is like welcoming Goddess Durga and ends with immersing the idols in the nearby lakes, ponds or rivers on the evening of Dashami. The clear blue sky, the cool pleasant air, the beautiful fragrance of sal and mahua forests, the lush green paddy fields and chanting of mantras of Goddess Durga, all sum up together to create the perfect ambience for the celebration. The preparations for the festival are done way in advance as beautiful pandals are build in different areas of the town,some of the important pandals are Sanghamitra Samity, Purbasa, Ghoradhara, Kanagali, Old Jhargram and Officers Club these are mainly community pujas, which are mainly financed by the local people or sponsorship from big corporate houses. People from all religious background participate in it and is celebrated as a secular festival.On the day of Bijoya Dashami Ramlila is organized and an effigy of Ravana is burnt in Old Jhargram. Other cultural programmes are organized in different parts of Jhargram and there is feast and music in the environment. During this festive period Jhargram attracts tourists not only from Kolkata but also from other states.
