In which state is the ‘Chapchar Kut’ festival celebrated in the month of March every year?
In which state is the ‘Chapchar Kut’ festival celebrated in the month of March every year? Correct Answer Mizoram
The correct answer is Mizoram.
- The Chapchar Kut is a festival of Mizoram, India.
- It is the biggest and most important festival in Mizoram.
- Chapchar Kut literally means - a festival held during the period when the bamboos and trees that have been cut down are being awaited to dry to be burnt for jhumming.
- It is celebrated every year in the month of March after the completion of the Jhum cultivation.
- The festival has been estimated to have started in 1450–1700 A.D. in a village called Suaipui.
- The celebration was revived in the year 1962.
- Jhum cultivation is the process of growing crops by first clearing the land of trees and vegetation and burning them thereafter.
- The current Chief Minister of Mizoram is Mr. Zoramthanga and the current Governor of Mizoram is Mr. P.S. Sreedharan Pillai.
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