Tag: customs

Quick Review Series

Himachal Pradesh’s Fairs and Festivals

16th April 2019 By Sarla Publications

Fairs and Festivals Himachal Pradesh is the land of fairs and festivals. The celebration of fairs and festivals reflect people’s diversity of culture, history, religious beliefs, social customs, varied moods, love of music and dance. Since Himachal Pradesh is the land of gods and goddesses, therefore people are god fearing and their festivals have a […]

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Practice of Reet

30th August 2018 By Sarla Publications

Reet Reet is a custom that defines the diverse social practices concerning marriage, remarriage and divorce in colonial Himachal Pradesh in the early twentieth century. In this context, the term ‘diversity’ has been central to twentieth-century debates on post-modernism and multi culturalism. This term is generally used to describe societies that comprise different religions, races, […]