Mamita Festival is a festival is observed in
Tripura
Tripura (, Bengali: ) is a state in Northeast India. The third-smallest state in the country, it covers ; and the seventh-least populous state with a population of 36.71 lakh ( 3.67 million). It is bordered by Assam and Mizoram to the ea ...
by the
Tripuri
Tripuri refer to:
*Tripuri people, an ethnic group in India and Bangladesh, also known as Tipra people
**Tripuri language
**Tripuri nationalism
**Tripuri calendar
**Tripuri culture
**Tripuri cuisine
**Tripuri dances
**Tripuri dress
**Tripuri games ...
,
Jamatia
The 'Jamatias' are the one of the main Tripuri clans of Tripura and the only such clan with its own Customary law in practice, which is called Jamatia Raida.
See also
* Tripuri people
* Kokborok
* Jamatia Hoda
* List of Scheduled Tribes in I ...
, and
Noatia
Noatia are one of the Tripuri clan of Tripura state of India. The clan mainly lives in the North Tripura districts of the Tripura state of India. They speak the Noatia dialect of Kokborok which is of Tibeto-Burmese origin.
The Noatia are one of ...
people after harvesting various crops including rice, sesame, vegetables, etc from the jhum or paddy field. In this day Tripuri people worship Mailuma and Khuluma deities by offering newly harvested crops .
[ Oral tradition and folk heritage of North East India - 8187502029
Lalit Kumar Barua - 1999 Page 168
- Some tribes like the Jatias, Tripuri and Jamatia observe another festival connecting the harvest, namely Mamita festival which is the worship of a particular deity. ] On this day a dance is performed by group of young male and females named"
Mamita dance.
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