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India is a multicultural, multilingual country and thus has a great number of holidays and festivals. Most of these festivals follow the Indian lunar calendar. Therefore they are likely to fall on different days each year in the Gregorian Calendar. Muslim holidays and festivals follow the Islamic calendar. So they too fall on different days every year. Numerous religious festivals are celebrated throughout the country, although the manner in which they are celebrated may vary from state to state. Amongst those that count as public holidays are – 26th January: Republic Day, 15th August: Independence Day, 2nd October: Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday and 25th December: Christmas.
January
Republic Day on 26th January
Pongal
Id-ul-Fitr
February-March
Holi
Shivaratri
March-April
Mahavir Jayanti
Ramanavami
Good Friday
Gangaur
Id-ul-Zuhar
Muharram
May-June
Buddha Jayanti
June-July
Rath Yatra
Teej
Milad-un-Nabi
July-August
Raksha Bandhan
Independence Day on 15th August
August-September
Janmashtami
Ganesh Chaturthi
September-October
Durga Puja
Dussehra
Gandhi Jayanti on 2nd October
October-November
Diwali
November-December
Nanak Jayanti
Christmas on 25th December
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