'Bhagoria' festival is related to which tribe ?
2025
'Bhagoria' festival is related to which tribe ?
- A.
Bhil
- B.
Korku
- C.
Baiga
- D.
Bhariya
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Correct answer: A
Community-specific festivals are a standard category in the tribal art-and-culture syllabus: each Scheduled Tribe of central India has its own distinctive fair or rite, tied to its home region and its point in the agricultural or seasonal calendar. Naming a festival and asking which tribe it belongs to is really asking whose homeland and calendar that festival matches.
The Bhagoria (also written Bhagoriya) festival is observed just before Holi across the Jhabua-Alirajpur-Dhar-Barwani belt of western Madhya Pradesh, the traditional homeland of the Bhil and the closely related Bhilala communities. It combines a harvest-season market (haat) with a community gathering where young men and women meet prospective life partners, accompanied by dancing, dhol-mandal drumming, and the exchange of gujiya and gulal - a pattern recorded by district and tribal-affairs administration sources in the region.
Korku communities are settled mainly around Betul, Chhindwara, and Hoshangabad; their seasonal calendar follows its own local observances and is not built around the Jhabua-Alirajpur Bhagoria haat.
Baiga communities, concentrated in Mandla, Dindori, and Balaghat, hold their major community festival around the Karam tree in a different part of the year, unconnected to the Bhagoria fair.
Bhariya communities, based chiefly in the Patalkot valley of Chhindwara district, keep a separate set of seasonal rites tied to that valley's own forest ecology, distinct from the Bhil festival calendar.
Because Bhagoria is specifically the pre-Holi fair of the Bhil (and Bhilala) homeland, and none of the other three tribes' own festival calendars include it, the tribe the question is asking for is the Bhil.