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Vaisakhi, celebrated on April 13 or 14, marks the start of the month of Vaisakh and is a significant harvest festival in Punjab and Northern India, also recognized as the Indian Solar New Year by some. For Sikhs, it commemorates the birth of the Khalsa order by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699 and is associated with key historical events, including the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The festival is also observed by Hindus with various rituals, temple visits, and community fairs, highlighting its cultural importance across different regions.

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Vaisakhi, celebrated on April 13 or 14, marks the start of the month of Vaisakh and is a significant harvest festival in Punjab and Northern India, also recognized as the Indian Solar New Year by some. For Sikhs, it commemorates the birth of the Khalsa order by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699 and is associated with key historical events, including the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The festival is also observed by Hindus with various rituals, temple visits, and community fairs, highlighting its cultural importance across different regions.

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Vaisakhi, also known as Baisakhi, marks the first day of the month of Vaisakh and is

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traditionally celebrated annually on 13 April and sometimes 14 April. It is seen

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as a spring harvest celebration primarily in Punjab and Northern India.

Whilst it is culturally significant as a festival of harvest, in many parts of India, Vaisakhi

is also the date for the Indian Solar New Year. But to sikhs this is not the new year as

first of Chet month is celebrated as new year according to Nanakshahi

[16][17][18]
calendar.

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For Sikhs, in addition to its significance as the harvest festival, during which Sikhs

hold kirtans, visit local gurdwaras, community fairs, hold nagar kirtan processions, raise

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the Nishan Sahib flag, and gather to socialize and share festive foods, Vaisakhi

observes major events in the history of Sikhism and the Indian subcontinent that

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happened in the Punjab region. Vaisakhi as a major Sikh festival marks the birth

of the Khalsa order by Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru of Sikhism, on 13 April

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1699. Later, Ranjit Singh was proclaimed as Maharaja of the Sikh Empire on

[25]
12 April 1801 (to coincide with Vaisakhi), creating a unified political state.

Vaisakhi was also the day when British Indian Army officer Reginald Dyer ordered his

troops to shoot into a protesting crowd in Amritsar, an event which would come to be
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known the Jallianwala Bagh massacre; the massacre proved influential to the history of

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the Indian independence movement.

This holiday is observed by Hindus and is known by various regional names in other

parts of India. For many Hindu communities, the festival is an occasion to ritually bathe

in sacred rivers such as Ganges, Jhelum, and Kaveri, visit temples, meet friends, take

part in other festivities, and perform a mandatory daan (charity) especially of hand fans,

water pitchers and seasonal fruits. Community fairs are held at Hindu pilgrimage sites.

In many areas, processions of temple deities are taken out. The holiday also marks the

worship and propitiation of various deities, such as Durga in Himachal Pradesh, Surya

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in Bihar, and Vishnu in southern India. Although Vaisakhi began as a grain harvest

festival for Hindus and its observance predates the creation of Sikhism, it gained

historical association with the Sikhs following the inauguration of the Khalsa

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