The North east Indian people in general and the Assamese
people in particular being agrarian people, celebrate various agricultural
festivals in different ways and at different times. Most of the festivals are
their age old traditional religious beliefs and practices in and around the
Rice centric (paddy) celebration, which celebrates with some exceptions of
socio -cultural relations. People are generally always busy with their day to
day monotonous life. They need periodic times of escape from such hectic life
temporarily after a harvest season and in which they can be joyous together.
And thus the traditional festivals, especially in regards after paddy
cultivation emerges. In the north eastern region of India too,
after a rich harvest in the autumn and spring season performed seasonal
festival that relates to rice.
The festival can be categorized into community festivals and
local festivals. The local festivals are performed by each village separately and
the community festivals are celebrated annually. These annual festivals in
Assam are as:
1) BohagBihu and Magh Bihu of Assamese
community.
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| Karbi Tribes Folk performance |
2) Boisagu and MaghiDomahi of the
Bodocommunity.
3) Baykho of the Rabha community.
4) Ligung and Porag of the Mishing
community.
5) Sagra-Michawa of the Tiwa community.
6) BusuDima of the Dimasa community.
7) Bisu of the Deori community.
8) HasaKekan and Rangkher of the Karbi
community.
In the neighboring areas of North East-
9) Wangala of the Garo community in Garo
hills of Meghalaya.
10) Myoko and Dreeof the Apatanis in
Arunachal Pradesh.
11) Shad Nongkrem of the Khasi Tribe in
the Khasi hills of Meghalaya
12) Moatsu of the Ao Naga Tribe of
Nagaland
13) Metemneo of the Yimchungers of Nagaland
14) Mim Kut of Mizo people in Mizoram
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| Konyak Folk dance |
15) Mopin of Adi tribes in Arunachal
Pradesh
16) Solung of Adi tribes in Arunachal
Pradesh
17) Losoong of the Sikkimise Bhutias in
Sikkim
18) Losar of Sikkim
19) Mongmong of the Sangtam tribe of
Nagaland
20) Aoliang of the Konyak Tribe of
Nagaland
21) Bushu of the Dimasa Kachari of
Nagaland
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