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Re: Help:Dates of Hindu holidays
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To: alt-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: Help:Dates of Hindu holidays
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From: Haran Shivkumar <Haran.Shivkumar@mch.sni.de>
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Date: 10 Mar 1995 20:05:20 GMT
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From postmaster@mch.sni.de Fri Mar 10 14: 55:03 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Inc.
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References: <3ilm2l$fe0@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
ewhite@twain.oit.umass.edu (Emanuel J White) wrote:
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> I am helping a friend put together a multi-cultural calendar for
> educational purposes. We are looking for the 1996 dates for the
> following holidays. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
Here is a list of Indian Festivals, and Holidays for the year 1995.
Please watch out for any errors. The list is by no means complete.
It was sent to me by a friend of mine here.
Sun Jan 1 New Years Day
Sun Jan 8 Guru Gobind Singh's B'day
Sat Jan 14 Makrasankranti/Pongal
Wed Jan 26 Republic Day
Sat Feb 4 Vasant Panchami/Sripanchami
Wed Feb 15 Guru Ravi Das's B'day
Fri Feb 24 JamatUl Vida/Mahrishi Dayanand Saraswati Jayanti
Mon Feb 27 Mahashivratri
Fri Mar 3 Idu'l Fitr
Thu Mar 16 Holi (Holika Dehna)
Fri Mar 17 Holi
Sat Apr 1 Chaitra Sukladi/Gudi Padava/Ugadi/Cheti Chand
Sun Apr 9 Ramnavmi
Thu Apr 13 Mahavir Jayanti
Fri Apr 14 Good Friday/Vaisakhi/Meshadi
Sat Apr 15 Vishu/Vaisakhadi/Bahag Bihu
Thu May 11 Idu'l Zuha (Bakrid)
Sun May 14 Buddha Purnima
Fri Jun 9 Muharram
Fri Jun 30 Rath Yatra
Thu Aug 10 Raksha Bandhan/Milad-Un-Nabi / Id-e-Milad
Tue Aug 15 Independence Day
Fri Aug 18 Janmashtami
Wed Aug 23 Parsee-New Year
Tue Aug 29 Ganesh Chaturthi/Vinayak Chaturthi
Thu Sep 7 Onam
Sun Oct 1 Dussehra (Maha Ashtami)
Mon Oct 2 Mahatma Gandhiji's B'day/Dussehra (Maha Navmi)
Tue Oct 3 Dussehra
Sun Oct 8 Maharishi Valmiki's B'day
Mon Oct 23 DIWALI/DEEPAVALI/NARKSHA CHATURDASI
Tue Oct 24 Govardhan Puja
Wed Oct 25 Bhai Dhuj
Tue Nov 7 Guru Nanak's B'day
Sun Nov 26 Guru Tegh Bahadur Martyrdom Day
Wed Dec 6 Hazrat Ali's B'day
Mon Dec 25 Christmas Day
Shiv
