{"id":228940,"date":"2023-02-27T19:28:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T13:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=228940"},"modified":"2023-02-27T19:28:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T13:58:13","slug":"as-part-of-banjara-community-outreach-union-government-to-mark-sant-sevalal-maharaj-jayanti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/as-part-of-banjara-community-outreach-union-government-to-mark-sant-sevalal-maharaj-jayanti\/","title":{"rendered":"As part of Banjara community outreach, Union government to mark Sant Sevalal Maharaj Jayanti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cAs part of Banjara community outreach, Union government to mark Sant Sevalal Maharaj Jayanti\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 27th February 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Government of India is celebrating the birth anniversary of Banjara community icon Santh Sevalal Maharaj Jayanti for the first time at a national level.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Who is Sevalal Maharaj?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Santh Sevalal Maharaj was born on 15 February 1739 at Surgondankoppa in Shivamogga district of Karnataka.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is considered a social reformer and spiritual teacher of the Banjara community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His final resting place or Samadhi is situated at Pohradevi in Maharashtra\u2019s Washim district, also known as Banjara Kashi.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Who are Banjaras?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Banjara (also known as Lambadi, Gour Rajput, Labana) are a historically nomadic trading tribe who may have origins in Rajasthan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have settled across the country with different names and have permanently abandoned their nomadic lifestyle and settled in their settlements called Tandas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are now <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mainly distributed in Maharastra, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal States and living in all the other States except the North-Eastern States and Union Territories.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They speak <\/span><b>Gor Boli <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">also called Lambadi which belongs to the Indo-Aryan Group of Languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banjara people celebrate the festival of <\/span><b>Teej during Shravanam (in the month of august). <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this festival young unmarried Banjara girls pray for a good groom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fire dance and Chari<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are the traditional dance forms of the banjara people.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cAs part of Banjara community outreach, Union government to mark Sant Sevalal Maharaj Jayanti\u201d published in The Hindu on 27th February 2023 What is the News? The Government of India is celebrating the birth anniversary of Banjara community icon Santh Sevalal Maharaj Jayanti for the first time&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/as-part-of-banjara-community-outreach-union-government-to-mark-sant-sevalal-maharaj-jayanti\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As part of Banjara community outreach, Union government to mark Sant Sevalal Maharaj Jayanti<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,11210,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-228940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-personalities-in-news","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}