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Ashura - Moharram/Dr.Babu Jagjivan Ram (may last 2 days)
Saturday 19 February 2005
(the date changes according to the year)
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*Hussain martyrdom day, killed in 680 fighting injustice. Jihad (holy war) derivates from this event.
**only in Andaman & Nicobar Island, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.
***in the UAE, Bahrein, Comoros, Libya and Lebanon, only observed by Hinduist communities
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