President Pranab Mukherjee concluded the centenary celebrations of Vasantrao Naik, former chief minister of Maharashtra, on 01.07.2013 at Navy Nagar ,Mumbai .Mukherjee released a postal cover in honour of the leader. He described Naik as a “great son” of Maharashtra and indeed India. “Today we talk about the employment guarantee programme in rural areas but…
प्राचीन काळापासून दर्‍याखोर्‍यात वावरणार्‍या बंजारा समाजाचा इतिहास बंजारा लोकसंस्कृतीमधून दिसून येतो. बंजारा समाजाचा होळी उत्सव म्हणजे ग्राम रंगभूमीवरील टोटल थिअटरचा अविश्कार म्हणावा लागेल. हा होलीकोत्सव म्हणजे विधी नाट्य सोहळाच असतो. ज्याप्रमाणे रामपुरच्या रामलीलेमध्ये वेगवेगळी दृश्य वेगवेगळया ठिकाणी सादर होतात. त्याचप्रमाणे बजारा समाजातील होलिकोत्सवातील विधी व नृत्य गावातील वेगवेगळया ठिकाणी तीन दिवसपर्यंत संपन्न होत असतात. सर्व…
Sant Shree SevalalMaharaj was born on 15.2.1739 to parents Smt. DharmaniYaadi (mother) and ShriRamavathBhimaNaik on this holy land around 275 years back. At that time this location was popularly known as Ramagundam or RamjiNaikTanda (RamjiNaik is grand father of Sevabhaya, who come to the location with 360 families of his Tanda and about 4000 loaded…
पोहरादेवी आणि बंजारा समाज यांचे अतूट असे नाते आहे. बंजारा व्यक्तीच्या जीवनात पोहरादेवी या गावाला अन्यय साधारण असे महत्व आहे. सुमारे 276 वर्षापूर्वी संतमुर्ती सेवादास महाराज हे बंजारा वंशात अवतारी पुरूष होवून गेले. सेवादास महाराजांना बंजारा समाज कुलदैवत मानतात. सेवादास महाराज हे बंजारा वंशात तिसरा अवतार असल्याचे सांगितल्या जाते. ज्यावेळेस समाजात अन्याय होते. त्यावेळेस समाजात…
Poharadevi is one of the important and well known pilgrimage of Maharashtra particularly workshiped and devoted by Banjara Samaj. It is a wholy and pious place for Banjara community. The people belongly to Banjara tribe come in crowed of thousands and lakes all places of India to workship deily of Poharadevi. The present research paper…
A Grammar of Lamani (Banjara) Written by : Ronald L. Trail A thesis submitted to the University of Poona for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, 1968 THE GRAMMAR OF LAMANI Introduction. The Lamani language belongs t o the Indo-Aryan family of languages. It originated in Rajasthan and i n the opinion of…
Historical background: It is a known fact that Banjaras lived originaly in Rajasthan, mainly Mewad and Chithorgad areas. They were the followers of Prithviraj Chavan, a welknown name in history. After Prithviraj Chavan banjaras followed Rana Prathap of Chithorgad. They were supplying provisions and arms to the armies of these historical leaders. Some were in…
Life of Santh Sri Sevelal Maharaj: Gollaiadoddi is in Guthi (Gooty) taluk (Mandal) of Ananthapur district of Andhra Pradesh. Guthi and Guntakal railway stations are situated 10 kms and 20 kms respectively on the state highway of Andhra Pradesh. Ramji Naik’s thanda, when deserted by the end of 18th century, the local population built a…
They were received with all courtesies and according to customs. The engagement function as arranged as per the castoms of banjaras. As per our customs Ramji Naik paid Rs. 80/- towards the Karar (agreement of marraige) and fixed the date of marriage Goram Naik treated the guests lavishly. Ramji Naik and his followers were very…
