Monday, March 9, 2009

THE BHIL BHAGORIA OF JHABUA 2009

The Bhil Bhagoria a traditional feast of love and romance was celebrated with much beauty amidst the splashing of colours, dancing on beats of huge tribal made indigenous drums, enchanting of the traditional love songs, eating of pans, exchanging of gifts, swinging on the jhoolas, etc. The Bhagoria festival was held in Jhabua the district head quarter, on the 8th of March 2009.

Some three hundred Bhil dhols(drums) together with with mandals, kundis, thalis, shahnais were played with much enthusiasm to express love and romance in traditional tribal and indigenous way. Over 50 thousand Bhil youth mostly together with men and women of the Bhil folks danced on this day from morning till evening untill sun set.The whole community of Bhils wait for this day, which is the last weekly market prior to the Hindu festival of Holi.

The previous member of Lok Sabha Mr. Dileep Singh Bhuriya and the present member of the Lok Sabha Mr. Kantilal Bhuriya too participated with much joy in the celebration of Jhabua and other Bhagoria festivals together with their friends. But the participation of the VIP personalities add no glamour to the tribal way of celebration of Bhagoria. It is but a communitarian and individual way of expression love, folklore, romance and joy to refill their lost energies for which the Bhils even after migrating to some far off land return to this geographical land of the Bhils. It is but a unique celebration to mark an indigenous tribal, cultural, social events on earth which can be witnessed in the midst of these Adivasi peoples,. which cannot be desribed in few words but witnessed only ....

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