Tribal women performing Puja during Karma festival night. Jerkatand village, Bokaro District Jharkhand, India
This is a religious practice among the Jharkhand Adivasis to propitiate the trees on the occasion of their festival-Karma. The history of the festival is not much local historians aver it is a common festival of two dominant tribes of the state-Mundas and Oraons -who have been celebrating it in the month of September-October since time immemorial. Today,it is observed by almost all tribes and Sadans(Indegenous non tribal castes),except Bhuiyas.
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