{"id":6391,"date":"2022-12-09T01:42:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6391"},"modified":"2025-03-27T14:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T09:04:25","slug":"what-is-jallikattu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-jallikattu\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Jallikattu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Jallikattu:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Jallikattu (or sallikkattu) is also known as <strong>eru thazhuvuthal and ma\u00f1cuvirattu.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The bull-taming sport is popular in <strong>Madurai, Tiruchirappalli, Theni, Pudukkottai and Dindigul districts <\/strong>\u2014 known as the Jallikattu belt.<\/li>\n<li>Jallikattu is celebrated in the second week of January, during the Tamil harvest festival, <strong>Pongal<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A tradition over 2,000 years old, Jallikattu is a competitive sport as well as an event to honour bull owners who rear them for mating.<\/li>\n<li>It is a traditional sport in which contestants try to tame a bull for a prize; if they fail, the bull owner wins the prize.<\/li>\n<li>Jallikattu is considered a traditional way for the peasant community to preserve their pure-breed native bulls.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kangayam, Pulikulam, Umbalachery, Barugur and Malai Maadu <\/strong>are among the popular native cattle breeds used for Jallikattu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the significance of Pongal?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Pongal is an important Hindu festival celebrated in Tamil Nadu. The four-day-long festival celebrates the harvesting of crops like sugarcane, rice and turmeric; it falls around the same time as Lohri (celebrated in North India) and Makar Sankranti (celebrated in Western India) in mid-January each year. It is essentially a thanksgiving function wherein farmers thank nature, the Sun God and the farm animals for helping in growing the year&#8217;s produce while other people thank the farmers for producing the crops.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/17820\/OPS\/G9JAK2L2B.1.png?rev=2022-12-09T00:46:13+05:30&amp;cropFromPage=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>The Hindu<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jallikattu is the bull-taming competitive sport celebrated during the Tamil harvest festival, Pongal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}