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 IndiaType Cultural Significance worship of Goddess Tusmani Celebrations crops harvesting Frequency Annually Related to Makar Sankranti
References
↑ 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 30 August 2026 .
↑ 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 .
↑ 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 .
↑ 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 .
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