Jharkhand Holi News: The festival of colors is celebrated with great enthusiasm by the Holi youth class, but if a boy sprinkles color on a girl in the Santhal tribal community of Jharkhand, he is forced to marry her. This strange tradition is found from West Singhbhum in Jharkhand to Jalpaiguri in West Bengal. Although several decades have passed, there has been no change in this practice.
According to the information received, women in the villages of Santhal tribal community play Holi with more enthusiasm than men, in which unmarried girls also participate. Unmarried girls put the colors of Holi on each other, but if a young man sprinkles the color of Holi on a virgin girl, then they have to marry the girl. Therefore, young people take care that the paint does not fall by mistake. If the young man refuses to marry after dyeing, then the house in which he lives has to be done in the name of the girl, which the parents of the young man cannot deny it. During the Holi festival, only young men and women who like each other play Holi.
