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Durga Puja
Hindu festival in Indian subcontinent
Pohela Boishakh
New Year festival of the Bengali people (mid April)
Vasant Panchami
festival
Kali Puja
Hindu festival dedicated to the goddess Kali
Jivitputrika
Jitiya (also known as Jiutiya or Jivitputrika) is a three-day-long ancient Hindu festival celebrated from the seventh to ninth lunar day of Krishna-Paksha in Ashvin month. It is celebrated in Nepal and the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand. Mothers fast for the well-being of their kids. It is celebrated for eight days in Jharkhand from the first moon day to the eighth moon day in the first half of the Ashvin month.
Sharad Purnima
Festival
Jagaddhātrī
Jagatdhatri or Jagaddhatri or Mahadurga (, ) is an aspect of the Hindu goddess Durga, worshipped in the Indian state of West Bengal and other states like Odisha and Jharkhand. Maa Jagadhatri, the Goddess who is revered as the protector of the world. In Bengal, her puja is celebrated as the comeback of Devi, specifically in Krishnanagar, Chandannagar, Santipur, Rishra, Midnapore,Singur and Guptipara.
Durga Puja in Kolkata
Durga Puja celebration in the city of Kolkata
Nabanna
thumbnail|right|Harvesting preparation Nobanno (, Nobānno; lit: New Feast) is a Bengali harvest celebration usually celebrated with food and dance and music in Bangladesh and in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam's Barak Valley and Eastern parts of Jharkhand. It is a festival of food; many local preparations of Bengali cuisine like pitha are cooked.
Karam
festival celebrated in India
Poush Mela
annual fair and festival in Santiniketan
Gaura-purnima
vaishnava Festival, Appearance day of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Badna
Bandna (spelt as Bāndnā, Hindi: बांदना) is an agriculture-oriented festival in which domestic cattle and agriculture appliances are worshiped. The festival mostly observed in the state of Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Assam, and celebrated annually as per Hindu calendar in the month of Amavashya of Kartik.
Rathayatra of Mahesh
Rathyatra in Mahesh
Gajan
Hindu celebration
Guptipara Rathayatra
Festival of Bengal
Bhadu
festival in South Bengal