Purulia-06- Dances and Songs and Crafts

Natua Dance: This is an ancient dance form of this district. Natua means Nataraj which was performed by Lord Shiva. There is a mythological believe that the Nandi & Vringi the two wel known devotees of Lord Shiva were performed this kind of dance at the time of marriage of their lord with Goddess Durga. This dance is not so easy to perform; it is very acrobatic dance form with many tricks with fire are involved in this dance form.
Bhuang: this is another dance form which performed by the tribes at the time autumn. This is a emotional piece of dance which dancers are use one kind of instrument called bhuyung which has very distinct sound.
Jhumur:  Another most famous folk music of this district. The most remarkable and originality of this song is that this form does not follow any definite form. This is also very popular and significant for its lyric and literary of ancient language among the Santali, Munda, Oraon, Kharia, Jhumur songs are different for different festivals. Mdal, Flutie, drum, etc all typical instruments are played during Jhumur songs. The specialty of Jhumur is that its expresses sorrow and joy of the common people with their lifestyle, their dreams, their dissatisfactions, etc. the characteristic of such Jhumur is love and kindness for life.
Birta Dance: This is also a traditional dance of Purulia district. Generally women who are unable to give birth of child perform this kind of dance to admire their God after fulfilling their wishes. This kind of dance is only can be performed by the women. It is belief that their children are born due to the blessing of God. So they are very thankful to their God and such dance is performed to worship to God.

Picture of Fishes- Patua Art

Picture of Goddess Manasa- Patua Art

Patua Art: Patua Art means, an art which is performed on the pot.Generally the patua artists are belonging to the villages. They learn this art generation after generation, from father to son or daughter. The Patua artists are generally picked the vital portion of epic like Ramayana and Mahabharata; not only that they also consider the local theme for their Patua art. They also consider the tribal lifestyle and Birgatha (heroic life of their surroundings. They are generally try to describe the story of their theme of art. The patua artists are generally show their art at any Mela or fair to the local and gathered public and earn some money.    Sometime this art is also performed on long cloths. At the time of showing the arts they narrate the basic story of the picture on sing format. This kind of traditional art is almost disappeared as the same has not publicity and development policy adopt by the Government. Patua artists are not getting enough income showing such art publicly; so that, the next generation is not being interested very much to carry this traditional art form. Recently,  the state and as well as Central Government of India have taken some effective step to survive such traditional and ancient art form.

Purulia- A decent tourist place of West Bengal, Indi Part-02.

Lotus of Purulia

Purulia Town- Purulia Town is one of the famous towns of West Bengal. This town is the head quarter of this district. This twon is well connected with various rails and roads.
Saheb Bandh- this is very nice and beautiful lake covering nearly 50 acres of land.at the mid of 19th Century, this lake was built. Colonel Tikley was started his work of digging this lake in the year 1843 and it took nearly five-six year to be completed. This lake is heaven for all kind of birds especially migrated birds who generally comes from Baluchistan, Siberia and other various parts of the world. During the winter season, these migrated birds comes to India and stay through the entire season.
Cheliama- is one of the famous tourist posts of Purulia district. This place is very attractive or we may call heaven for historians and also archeologists, because here has lots of potentiality of 17 AD’s civilization. Lots of terracotta works of the ancient time are found here. Apart of these items, here has a temple of Radha-Govinda which is also most attraction of tourists of the entire world.
Deulghat- this is a Bengali word; the meaning of this word is Land of Temples. Here has nearly 15 temples and this place is situated near Krishna River. There are many reasons which have made this place very attractive as tourist spot and one of these reasons is coupled with graceful carvings. Though the ancient arts and sculptures of these temples are almost destroyed by the storm of time; yet this place is same attractive like before.
Ayodhya Pahar (Hill)- this is another attraction of Purulia. This hill is located at the South-West of Purulia. It is nearly 42 km distance from the Purulia town.This hill is very much attractive for the tourists for its fresh water spring and water course. This hill is nearly 700mtr high. This is the perfect place to practice of mountaineering and rock climbing. This place has  beautiful nature and mythological  value.
Para- this is village and tourist spot which reminds us about the arrival of Muslims to the Eastern India. There are two types of duels, one is contemporary of Deulghat and other one is latter period. These two types proved their excellent of the impressive architecture and file craving works era after era. Such heritage buildings bounds to come tourists here.
Khairabera: This is a dam which is generally used for irrigation purpose. This dam is situated at Baghmundi. It is covered by hills and forest. This is also an attraction of Purulia. It’s beauty and pleasant atmosphere always attracts tourists.
Duarsini: This place is surrounded by small hills, forests and also  watercourses of various rivers. The beauty and charming of this place brings huge tourists. This is actually situated within the block of Burdwan. The forest department of this place has constructed three different types of racial cottages with double bed accommodation for tourists’ purpose.

Purulia- A decent tourist place of West Bengal, India: Part-01

SUNRISE- PURULIA DISTRICT

Purulia is one of the districts of West Bengal which is one of the provinces of India. There are so having many places which are really most attractive tourist spots.
This is my always try to discover India and its provinces in form through my eyes. India is a most famous and finest country of the world. Thus entire world has curiosity about India specially tourists of the world.
I have an aim to open this blog site and that is encouraged to all tourists of the world. I want to spread a message to all tourists of the world about India as well as of its provinces.
I think and believe that before to start to visit any place, we have to do good home work; we have gathered a lot of information about the place where we have planned to visit. This home work is to know little about the pre-history, post-history and how it becomes a travel place, etc.
From the point of pre-ancient history, Purulia was very important place in India. Then the time was 5th century AD, according to the Jain Bhgawati Sutra, this place was one of 16th Mahajanapad. This place was also known as one of the part of Braja-Bhumi. Thereafter Purulia was the part of Jharkhand district and lastly it was added in West Bengal Map. Before taking the Dewani by British India Company, this Purrulia was very little known by the people.
India was under the ruled by the British Government for nearly 200 years. In the year of 1805, a Jungle Mahal district was formed by the earlier British Government of India with 23 Parganas including Purulia. Thereafter this district was came under the Manbhum District including Birbhum, Bardwan. 
After 1956, lastly the Manbhum district was broken and partitioned between West Bengal and Bihar; thus the Purulia district was born as independent district of West Bengal in 1st November 1956.
The Approximate are of this district is 6259 sq.km. the nearest districts are Burdwan, Bankura, Paschim Medinipur and also the state Jharkhand, Madhyapradesh, Odissa.  This is one of the tropical locations of India. In summer, the temperature of this district is closest to 52 degree and in winter such degree comes down to 3.8 degree. The rainfall of this district is not much. In monsoon, the humidity of this place is remain 75 to 85%, but in winter it comes down 25 to 35% approx.
The most visited places of this district are, Forests, Flora & Fauna, Ajodhya Hills, Matha, Murguma Dam & Kuilapal Forest, Jaychandi Pahar, Panchakote Raj, Duarsini Hills, etc. here I would like to inform that Tourism is one of most source of income of this district. Due to taught weather and soil, the agriculture of Purulia district is backward in comparison of other districts of West Bengal. The main agriculture products of this district are Silk & Lac (gum).
Kangsabati, Kumari, Silabati, Dwarakeswar, Subarnarekha and Dmodar are important rivers which flow across this district. There are so many dams like Murguma, Pardi, Burda, Gopalpur. The storage water of these dams are generally use for irrigation purpose of this district. Another dam is Saheb Bandh, this is famous and trendy dam for water bodies of this district. This dam is located at the heart of the town of this district. This dam is a big shelter of travelling birds which comes from various parts of the country like Bangladesh, Burma, Pakistan, and Baluchistan at the time of winter season like December to March.