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    Question

    Palkhi Festival, which lasts for 22 days, starts in the

    month of Jyestha (June). Every year on the eleventh day of the first half of the month of Ashadh, the Palkhi reaches Pandharpur. This festival shows a distinctive feature of which state’s culture? 
    A Maharashtra Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Tamil Nadu Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Odisha Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D West Bengal Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None of these Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Palki festival showcases the distinctive features of Maharashtrian culture.  This is a 1000-year-old tradition, which has been followed by the warkaris (people who follow the wari, a fundamental ritual). People perform collective singing, dancing, chanting (Dnyanba-Tukaram in what are called as Dindis or organised group of warkaris) to the holy town of Pandharpur in Hindu months of Ashadh (June-July) and Karthik (November-December).  Palkhi Festival, which lasts for 22 days, starts in the month of Jyeshth (June). Every year on the eleventh day of the first half of the month of Ashadh, the Palkhi reaches Pandharpur. 

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