Public Holidays in India in 2019

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: New Year's Day

: Mannam Jayanthi

: New Year's Celebration

: Missionary Day

: Birthday of Swami Vivekananda

: Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti

: Bhogi

: Pongal

: Makar Sankranti

: Pongal

: Sankranti

: Tusu Puja

: Thiruvalluvar Day

: Kanuma

  • In Andhra Pradesh, the Kanuma festival is celebrated on the third day of four-day Sankranti festival
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: Uzhavar Tirunal

: Imoinu Iratpa

: Gann-Ngai

: Public Holiday

  • The Karnataka government has declared a one day holiday for all schools, colleges, and government offices on the demise of Siddaganga Math seer Sri Shivakumara Swami
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: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Jayanti

: Statehood Day

: Republic Day

: Gothar Bathou Sun

: Me-dam-me-phi

: Losar

  • Tibetan New year, also known as Losar, is the most important festival in the Tibetan calendar
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: Sonam Lochhar

: Sir Chhotu Ram Jayanti

: Vasant Panchami

: Lui-Ngai-Ni

: State Holiday for Deputy Chief Minister

: Chahhtrapati Shivaji Maharaj Jayanti

: Guru Ravidas Jayanti

: Bir Chilarai Divas

: Bhumchu Festival

: Mizoram State Day

: Statehood Day

: Chapchar Kut

: Maha Shivratri

: Panchayati Raj Diwas

: State Holiday for Chief Minister

: Holi Dahan

: Holi

  • Originally a harvest and fertility festival, Holi also commemorates a legend from Hindu Mythology
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: Doljatra

: Doljatra

: Holi

  • Originally a harvest and fertility festival, Holi also commemorates a legend from Hindu Mythology
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: Imam Ali's Birthday

: Holi

  • Originally a harvest and fertility festival, Holi also commemorates a legend from Hindu Mythology
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: Yaosang 2nd Day

  • Manipur. This festival that combines Hindu and folk traditions is celebrated for five days in spring on the full moon in the month of Lamda
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: Bihar Divas

: Shaheedi Diwas

: Bank Holiday

: Odisha Day

: Babu Jagjivan Ram Birthday

: Ugadi

: Sajibu Nongma Panba

: 1st Navratra

: Gudi Padwa

: Cheti Chand

: Sarhul

  • A key tribal festival, celebrated on Chaitra Shukla Tritiya, the third day of waxing moon in Chaitra month. Sarhul marks the beginning of New Year
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: Public Holiday Lok Shaba Elections

: Biju Festival

: Ram Navami

: Bohag Bihu Holiday

: Ashoka's Birth Anniversary

: Dr Ambedkar Jayanti

: Mahabishuba Sankranti

: Tamil New Year

: Vaisakhi

: Ram Navami

: Cheiraoba

: Bengali New Year

  • Mughal Emperor Akbar introduced the Bengali calendar in 1556 (Gregorian calendar) to make the collection of land tax easier in 'Subah Bangla', much of which is now in Bangladesh.
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: Bohag Bihu

  • This is the most important agricultural festival in Assam and marks the beginning of the Assamese New Year, signifying the time of harvest.
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: Himachal Day

: Vishu

  • Vishu is celebrated with much fanfare and energy in all parts of Kerala. It is considered a festival of light and fireworks
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: Bohag Bihu Holiday

: Mahavir Jayanti

: Maundy Thursday

: Public Holiday Lok Shaba Elections

: Good Friday

: Easter Sunday

  • Easter Sunday is the most important date in the Christian church. In the bible, it is the day when Mary Magdalene found that an empty tomb in the cave in which Jesus had been placed.
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: Shab e-Barat

  • Muslims believe that on the night of Shab-E-Barat God writes the destinies of all men for the coming year by taking into account the deeds committed by them in the past
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: Garia Puja

: Veer Kunvar Singh Jayanti

: Public Holiday Lok Shaba Elections

: Maharashtra Day

: Labour Day

: Tithi of Damodar Deva

: Basava Jayanthi

: Parashurama Jayanti

: Birthday of Rabindra Nath Tagore

: Birthday of Rabindra Nath Tagore

: Janaki Nawami

  • Janaki Nawami is celebrated every year on the ninth day of the waxing moon in the month of Baishakh according to the lunar calendar.
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: Sikkim State Day

: Buddha Purnima

: Buddha Purnima

: Janmotsav of Sri Sri Madhav Dev

: Jumat-ul-Wida

: Shab-I-Qadr

: Idul Fitr

: Maharana Pratap Jayanti

: Following Day of Ramazan

: Uttarakhand Public Holiday

: Guru Arjun Dev Martyrdom day

: Pahili Raja

: Raja Sankranti

: YMA Day

  • The Young Mizo Association (YMA) is the largest non-profit and nongovernmental organisation of the Mizo people. It was established on 15 June 1935.
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: Sant Guru Kabir Jayanti

: Thomas Jones Day

: Remna Ni

  • On 30 June 1986, a peace agreement was signed between the Mizo National Front and the Central government, ending 20 years of insurgency in Mizoram
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: Ratha Yatra

: Guru Hargobind Ji's Birthday

: MHIP Day

: Kharchi Puja

: Martyrs' Day

: Behdienkhlam

  • Behdienkhlam (chasing away the Demon of Cholera) is celebrated in mid-July after the sowing period. It is the most important festival of the Jaintia tribes
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: U Tirot Sing Day

: Ker Puja

: Bonalu

  • Telangana, a Hindu festival celebrating Goddess Mahakali in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad
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: Martyrdom Day of Shaheed Udham Singh

: Karkidaka Vavu

: Bakrid

  • Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice is the most important feast in the Muslim calendar. It celebrates the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ishmael in submission to Allah's command, before he was stopped by Allah.
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: Id-ul-Ad'ha

  • Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice is the most important feast in the Muslim calendar. It celebrates the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ishmael in submission to Allah's command, before he was stopped by Allah.
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: Patriot's Day

: Independence Day

: Raksha Bandhan

: Jhulan Purnima

: De jure Transfer Day

: Parsi New Year

: Tithi of Sri Sri Madhav Dev

: Janmashtami

: Krishna Jayanthi

: Janmashtami

: Ayyankali Jayanthi

: Parkash Utsav Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji

: Ganesh Chaturthi

: Samvatsari

: Vinayagar Chathurthi

: Tithi of Srimatna Sankardev

: Nuakhai

  • Nuakhai is an agricultural festival observed by people of western Odisha to welcome the new rice of the season
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: Ganesh Chaturthi Holiday

: Ramdev Jayanti and Teja Dashmi

: Ashura

  • Ashura is the 10th day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar and marks the climax of the Mourning of Muharram
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: First Onam

  • Onam lasts 10 days with official state holidays on three or four days starting from Onam Eve (Uthradom) to the Third Onam Day
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: Ashura

  • Ashura is the 10th day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar and marks the climax of the Mourning of Muharram
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: Ashura

  • Ashura is the 10th day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar and marks the climax of the Mourning of Muharram
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: Ashura

  • Ashura is the 10th day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar and marks the climax of the Mourning of Muharram
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: Thiruvonam

: Third Onam

: Anant Chaturdashi

: Fourth Onam

: Sree Narayana Guru Samadhi

: Haryana Heroes' Martyrdom Day

: Mahalaya

: Bathukamma Starting Day

: Maharaja Agrasen Jayanti

: Mera Chaoren Houba

: Mahatma Gandhi Birthday

: Maha Saptami

: Birthday of Nar Bahadur Bhandari

: Durga Ashtami

: Mahanavami

: Mahanavami

: Navami of Durga Puja

: Ayudha Puja

  • On Ayudha Puja, the ninth day of Navaratri, many common and seemingly mundane tools and implements are cleaned and worshipped.
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: Ayudha Puja

  • On Ayudha Puja, the ninth day of Navaratri, many common and seemingly mundane tools and implements are cleaned and worshipped.
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: Durga Puja

  • Durga Puja is one of the largest Hindu festivals that involves worship of Goddess Durga symbolising power and triumph of good over evil in Hindu mythology.
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: Vijaya Dashami

  • Also known as Dashain or Tenth day of Navratri or Durgotsav, Vijaya Dashami commemorates the day that Durga appeared riding a lion to slay the Mahisasura.
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: Dussehra

: Janmostav of Srimatna Sankardev

: Maharishi Valmiki Birthday

: Lakshmi Puja

: Kati Bihu

  • An important Assamese festival to ensure strong growth and healthy crops that begins at the start of the month of Kati.
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: Public Holiday

: Diwali

  • Celebrations revolve around the triumph of good over evil, purity over impurity, light over darkness
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: Kali Puja

  • Kali Puja is celebrated on the new moon day of the Hindu month Kartik. It is celebrated on the same day as Diwali, when other regions worship the godess Lakshmi.
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: Narak Chaturdashi

: Deepavali

: Diwali

  • Celebrations revolve around the triumph of good over evil, purity over impurity, light over darkness
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: Vikram Samvat New Year

  • Gujuarat. Named after king Vikramaditya, this calendar remains widely used in western India. In Gujarat, the second day of Diwali is celebrated as the first day of the Vikram Samvat calendar
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: Vishvakarma Day

: Govardhan Puja

: Bhai Bij

: Deepavali

: Ningol Chakkouba

: Sardar Patel's Birthday

: Haryana Day

: Kannada Rajyothsava

: Kut

: Puducherry Liberation Day

: Chhath Puja

: Chhath Puja

: Wangala Festival

: Milad-i-Sherif

: Mawlid

  • Celebrated by Muslims on the twelfth day of the month of Rabiulawal, the third month of the Muslim calendar
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: Parkash Gurpurab of Guru Nanak ji

: Guru Nanak's Birthday

  • Falls on the full moon day of the Kartik month of the Hindu calendar. It is celebrated all over India to commemorate the birth of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism.
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: Rasa Purnima

: Kanakadasa Jayanthi

: Friday after Eid e-Milad-un Nabi

: Lhabab Duechen

: Seng Kut Snem

: Lachit Divas

: Martyrdom of Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Ji

: State Inauguration Day

: Indigenous Faith Day

: Asom Divas

: Feast of St. Francis Xavier

: Birthday of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah

: Pa Togan Nengminza Sangma

: Barahimizong

: Death Anniversary of U SoSo Tham

: Guru Ghasidas Jayanti

: Goa Liberation Day

: Christmas Eve

  • Christmas Eve marks the culmination of the Advent period before Christmas that started on the fourth Sunday before Christmas Eve.
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: Christmas Day

: Boxing Day

  • The second day of Christmas is known as Boxing Day or St. Stephens Day. St Stephen was the first Christian martyr.
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: Christmas Holiday

: Solar Eclipse

: Christmas Festival

: Losoong/Namsoong

: Losoong/Namsoong

: Losoong/Namsoong

: U Kiang Nangbah

: Losoong/Namsoong

: New Year's Eve

: Losoong/Namsoong

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