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7 unusual facts about Marathi people


Antyesti

In Mumbai, for Marathi people generally, the dead body is wrapped in a shroud and placed on a structure made of bamboo sticks and grass carpet, an earth pot (matka) is tied with sutli and rice is cooked in small earth pots and it is placed in a big pot where aggarbattis are burning.

Chota Char Dham

Buoyed by "religious tourism" and by the rise of a conservative Hindu population compelled by sites that speak to the existence of an all-India Hindu culture, the Chota Char Dham has become an important destination for pilgrims from throughout South Asia and the diaspora, particularly Bengalis, Marwaris, Oriyas, Marathis, Gujaratis, Delhites and people from Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.

Durgabai Kamat

Durgabai Kamat (1899 - May 17, 1997), was a Marathi actress, who was the first female actress of Indian cinema.

Kedar Pandit

Kedar Pandit was born in a Marathi family to Prabhakar Pandit and Anuradha Pandit, both acclaimed violinists.

Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology

Another student organization in RAIT is Kalaraag,very much dedicated to performing arts and Marathi, English and Hindi theatre.

Shishupala Vadha

The Marathi writer Bhaskarabhatta Borikar, of the early 14th century, wrote a Shishupala Vadha in Marathi (1308).

Wadke

Wadke is a Maharashtrian surname mostly belonging to the Twashta Kasar (also known as Twashta Brahmin / Tambat from Sanskrit tamrpat) community hailing from the Konkan region (Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Mumbai and Pune) of the State of Maharashtra in India.


C. D. Deshmukh

The Central Government with Jawaharlal Nehru as the Prime Minister made, however, an exception by newly forming the State of Bombay which comprised the neighbouring Gujarati and overwhelmingly Marathi regions, the City of Mumbai, the nation's prime economic center, being made the new state's capital.

Sangeet Natak

With British Raj then existing in India, Sangeet Natakas were compared with the Operas and thus local Marathi Indians found synonymous recreation.


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