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Title Festivals and rituals / directed by Frédéric Soltan and Dominique Rabotteau
Published Derry, NH : Chip Taylor Communications, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (48 min.)
Series VAST - Academic video online
Summary Indians have more holidays on their calendar than anyone else in the world. Just about any event merits a celebration. In Mumbai (Bombay), there is a festival in honor of Ganesh, the god with the elephant head, which lasts several days. In Southern India, at springtime, bulls are free to roam through village squares. In Kerala, when the gods speak through men's mouths, what could have been a show becomes a sacred ritual; and in Gujerat young girls are allowed to choose their husbands during a fair
Notes Previously published as DVD
Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012)
English
Subject Festivals -- India.
Festivals.
Manners and customs.
SUBJECT India -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007592
India -- Religious life and customs
Subject India.
Genre/Form Documentary
Documentary.
Form Streaming video
Author Rabotteau Dominique
Soltan, Frédéric