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Agricultural festival of India

Keywords: Agricultural-India

Issue Date: 2017

Publisher: National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata

Description: The video is a presentation on the agricultural festivals of India. The importance of agriculture to human life is celebrated in agricultural societies through rituals and ceremonial offerings are made to appease the elements of sun, rain and earth. In India there are many such agricultural festivals which are celebrated throughout the year to mark the seasonal cycles of crops. In the summer months, the arrival of the monsoon is celebrated through such festivals like Nag Panchami. The snake or the ‘nag’ is believed to usher in the monsoon and rural households offer rice and milk to snakes. Good harvest festivals are celebrated throughout the country like the festival of Rongali Bihu in Assam, Nabanna in Bengal, Baisakhi in Punjab, Onam in Kerala and Pongal in Tamil Nadu. In some festivals bulls are honoured since they are indispensable to farming like the Pola festival of South India.

Type: Video

Received From: National Council of Science Museums


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dc.date.accessioned 2017-04-21T07:24:17Z
dc.date.available 2017-04-21T07:24:17Z
dc.description The video is a presentation on the agricultural festivals of India. The importance of agriculture to human life is celebrated in agricultural societies through rituals and ceremonial offerings are made to appease the elements of sun, rain and earth. In India there are many such agricultural festivals which are celebrated throughout the year to mark the seasonal cycles of crops. In the summer months, the arrival of the monsoon is celebrated through such festivals like Nag Panchami. The snake or the ‘nag’ is believed to usher in the monsoon and rural households offer rice and milk to snakes. Good harvest festivals are celebrated throughout the country like the festival of Rongali Bihu in Assam, Nabanna in Bengal, Baisakhi in Punjab, Onam in Kerala and Pongal in Tamil Nadu. In some festivals bulls are honoured since they are indispensable to farming like the Pola festival of South India.
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.format.mimetype text/html
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata
dc.subject Agricultural-India
dc.type Video
dc.format.medium video
dc.format.duration 00:15:56
dcterms.audience General
DC Field Value
dc.date.accessioned 2017-04-21T07:24:17Z
dc.date.available 2017-04-21T07:24:17Z
dc.description The video is a presentation on the agricultural festivals of India. The importance of agriculture to human life is celebrated in agricultural societies through rituals and ceremonial offerings are made to appease the elements of sun, rain and earth. In India there are many such agricultural festivals which are celebrated throughout the year to mark the seasonal cycles of crops. In the summer months, the arrival of the monsoon is celebrated through such festivals like Nag Panchami. The snake or the ‘nag’ is believed to usher in the monsoon and rural households offer rice and milk to snakes. Good harvest festivals are celebrated throughout the country like the festival of Rongali Bihu in Assam, Nabanna in Bengal, Baisakhi in Punjab, Onam in Kerala and Pongal in Tamil Nadu. In some festivals bulls are honoured since they are indispensable to farming like the Pola festival of South India.
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.format.mimetype text/html
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata
dc.subject Agricultural-India
dc.type Video
dc.format.medium video
dc.format.duration 00:15:56
dcterms.audience General