Teej Festival

Teej Festival is held every year during the Hindu month of Shravan and marks the advent of the monsoon. The onset of monsoon is a time to celebrate as the rain brings water to the parched land.  The Teej Festival is dedicated to Goddess Parvati. Young girls, newly wed women and elderly women can be seen attired in flashy traditional costumes or in special multicoloured striped pattern Laharia Sari and ornaments. Basically, a women's festival, it is interesting to watch them enjoying henna to decorate their hands and singing songs of love and enjoying flower bedecked swings, which are hung on trees.  On this occasion, a royal procession of Goddess Teej comprising of horses and camels, dancing folk artists, royal palanquins, chariots and bullock carts starts from the City Palace, winding its way through Tripolia Bazar and Chhoti Chaupar on both days.