Nagoba Jatara

Nagoba Jatara is Gond tribal festival held in a Keslapur village, Inderavelly Mandal[1] Adilabad district, Telangana, India.[2] It is the second biggest tribal carnival and celebrated by Mesaram clan of Gond&Pardhan tribes for 10 days.[3] Tribal people from Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh belonging to the Mesram clan offer prayers at the festival.[4]

Nagoba Jatara
Observed byTribal people or Scheduled Tribes
TypeGond, Tribal
Celebrations10 days
ObservancesOffering to the Goddess
BeginsJanuary
DateAnnual - February

Thousands of Tribal people from Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Karnataka, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh belonging to the Mesaram clan offer prayers at the festival Nagoba. It starts in Pushya Masam, Hindu lunar month. A ceremony of 'bheting' is its integral part where the new brides are introduced to the clan god during first jatra after their marriage.[5]

How To Travel

To reach Nagoba Jatara from Adilabad district center distance is of 32 km. From Hyderabad 326 km, Karimnagar 183 km, Warangal 235 km [6]

References
  1. Keslapur Nagoba Jatara History
  2. The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh News : Nagoba jatara begins today
  3. Gonds converge for Nagoba jatara – The Hindu
  4. Singh, S. Harpal (11 January 2010). "Tribals prefer ritualistic purity to modernity". The Hindu. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  5. "Nagoba Jatara History Gond Tribal". Archived from the original on 22 January 2015.
  6. NAGOBA Jatara: How To Travel (DISTANCE)
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