Ramman : Folk festival of Uttarakhand

Ramman is a folk festival of Uttarakhand celebrated every year in the month of April at the village Of Saloor-Dungra in Chamoli district.

Ramman is a form of traditional rituals theatre performed in the courtyard of the temple of Bhumiyal Devta.

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Ramman festival features on the list of the Intangible cultural Heritage of Humanity in India.

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Ramman festival is related to the Hindu epic Ramayana. The stories of the epic are re-enacted with singing and masked dances by the villagers.

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Dance performances by the participants, wearing masks and narrating the stories of Ramayana, other Hindu texts, and local stories is the festival's main highlight

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In Ramman festival the performance has 18 participants, playing 18 characters wearing 18 masks and dancing on 18 beats to celebrate the 18 Puranas.

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Ramman is celebrated for 11 or 13 days. During this festival villagers also worship local deity & pay their obscene to ‘Bhumiyal Devta’.

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In ramman festival various shades of local life are also enacted in the masked dance such as Myor-Muren Nritya.

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The episode of Gorkha invasion on Garhwal is also depicted in the Mal Nritya.

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When the festivity ends, Bhumiya Devta goes to stay at one of the houses of the village for a year till the next Baisakhi festival.

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