{"id":6058,"date":"2020-02-01T11:58:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T06:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=6058"},"modified":"2020-02-01T11:58:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T06:28:47","slug":"nagoba-jatara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/nagoba-jatara\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagoba jatara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims\/Mains: G.S paper I: Art &amp; Culture<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Nagoba.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6059\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Nagoba.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much thanksgiving took place between the ordinary members of the clan and the elders who made it possible for the Nagoba jatara to be celebrated with customary gusto.<\/p>\n<p>The thanksgiving and <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>the ceremony of Betal puja<\/strong><\/span> constituted the last of the rituals before the formal end of the annual jatara, which was spread over a month.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Betal puja involved display of martial art,<\/span> in this case sword wielding, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">by the Adivasi Raj Gond<\/span> and Pardhans from the Mesram clan near the Govad. The practised exercise has the \u2018warrior\u2019 jumping into the air wielding a thin bamboo stick like a sword.<\/p>\n<p>According to elders, the Adivasis were familiar with martial arts, having been from the once ruling clans. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Mesram exited Keslapur village<\/span> to proceed towards Shampur in Utnoor mandal for the Budumdev jatara.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nagoba Jatara, the tribal festival of Telangana concluded.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts to remember:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nagoba Jatara is a tribal festival held in Keslapur village, Inderavelly Mandal Adilabad district, It starts in pushya masam.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>It is celebrated by Mesaram clan of Gond tribes for 10 days. Tribal people from Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh belonging to the Mesram clan offer prayers at the festival.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The Gusadi Dance performance by dancers from the Gond tribe is a major special attraction of the event.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>The event also includes a ceremony called \u2018bheting\u2019, which incorporates new brides into the clan.<\/li>\n<li>The ceremony of Betal puja, which involves display of martial art, constitutes the last of the rituals in the event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims\/Mains: G.S paper I: Art &amp; Culture Much thanksgiving took place between the ordinary members of the clan and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,7],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-6058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-i","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6060,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions\/6060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}