Agricultural festivals: Integral part of tribal culture
- Kurukshetra: A Journal on Rural Development
- 72(8), Jun, 2024: p.33-38
As a part of their culture heritage, all tubes celebrate various festivals to appease deities and revere mother nature for blessing. Various agricultural activities, like sowing, caring of crops, harvesting etc., are nature or wither dependent for their best results. Hence, any adversity in weather conditions posed a big challenge to ancient agrarian societies for their survival and sustenance. To keep their crops safe from any calamity, they started worshipping the agricultural fields and related deities with songs, dances, and various offering. – Reproduced