Tusu Festival

{{short description|Folk festival in eastern India}}

{{Culture of Bengal}}

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.{{Cite journal |last1=Kundu |first1=Satabdi |last2=Islam |first2=Md. Mohidul |last3=Nandi |first3=Shyamal Kumar |date=Dec 2016 |title=Traditional Festivity of Tusu Puja: An Anthropological Appraisal |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2277436X20160211?journalCode=ansa |journal=Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=333–340 |doi=10.1177/2277436x20160211 |s2cid=217935042 |issn=2277-436X |url-access=limited |via=SAGE journals}} 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.{{Cite Banglapedia|article=Tusu_Festival|author=Anjalika Mukhopadhyay}} The festival Tusu, is mostly celebrated in Southwest of West Bengal, Southeast of Jharkhand, Northeastern Odisha as well in the Tea-State of Assam.{{Cite journal |last=McDaniel |first=June |date=Aug 2002 |others=No. 2 |title=O Ṭuṣu Mā: Self-Expression, Oral History, and Social Commentary for the Jharkhand Goddess |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20106813 |journal=International Journal of Hindu Studies |publisher=Springer |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=175–197|doi=10.1007/s11407-002-0007-7 |jstor=20106813 |s2cid=144677997 }}{{Cite web |last1=Bhattacharya |first1=Dr. Shreya |last2=Kuiry |first2=Hare Krishna |year=2021 |title=Death to Deification: Reading the Many Tales of Goddess Tusu |url=http://inet.vidyasagar.ac.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/5770/1/34.%2520Shreya_Hare.pdf |access-date=20 March 2022 |website=vidyasagar.ac.in}}{{cite web | url=https://www.guwahatiplus.com/article-detail/sombre-tusu-puja-celebration-amidst-bihu | title=G Plus | Guwahati's Foremost Media Network | Guwahati News }}

File:Crowd in Tusu Festival Chandil.jpg

{{Infobox holiday

| type = Cultural

| holiday_name = Tusu parab

| nickname =

| observedby = Tribal people of Eastern India

| significance = worship of Goddess Tusmani

| celebrations = crops harvesting

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| frequency = Annually

| duration =

| begins =

| relatedto = Makar Sankranti

| image = Tusu Festival.jpg

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