CHANGING TRADITIONAL CHAMBA MINJAR FAIR

MinjarMela is a main fair of Chamba's peoples. MinjarMela got the accreditation of International Fair and it is one of the famous fair in Himachal Pradesh. The fair is celebrated on the second day of the month of Shravan according to the Hindu calendar. This comes in last week of July and duration of the fair is 7 days. Minjar is a name of maize flower. The fair is organized when the young paddy and maize shoots emerge from the soil, thus to celebrate the harvesting season of maize, this fair is celebrated. In this fair people generally wear silk costumes and there is always a stalk of Minjar attached to it. From this research paper I can conclude that many people of Chamba city think that there'rechanges in traditional Minjar fair and some people think that there're no changes in Minjar fair. This study based on intensive field work conducted in Chamba district in the state of HimachalPradesh. During the months of February 2017 to march 2017.In this paper people saw that the changes in traditional Minjar fair like traditional festive songs replace with Bollywood or Punjabi songs, traditional fair converts into international and modern fair. This assignment didn't against the changing patterns of Minjar fair, my main intension to just show how the Minjar fair of Chamba district changes traditional to international.