Hola Mohalla: Difference between revisions

'''Hola Mohalla''' ([[Gurmukhi]]: ਹੋਲਾ-ਮਹੱਲਾ ''hōlā muhalā''), also called '''Hola''', is a three-day long [[Sikh]] festival which normally falls in March.<ref name="SikhSpectrum">{{cite journal |last=Ahluwalia |first=M.S. |date=November 2004 |title=Tourism: The Festival of Hola Mohalla |journal=SikhSpectrum.com Quarterly |issue=18 |url=http://www.sikhspectrum.com/112004/hola.htm |access-date=2008-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517080324/http://www.sikhspectrum.com/112004/hola.htm |archive-date=17 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Calendar">{{cite web |url=http://www.sikhworld.co.uk/page19.html |title=Sikh Calendar |access-date=2008-09-17 |work=SikhWorld.co.uk |author=Amolak Singh}}</ref> It takes place on the second day of the [[lunar month]] of [[Chet (month)|Chett]], usually a day after the Hindu spring festival [[Holi]] but sometimes, coincides with it.<ref>Fieldhouse, Paul (2017) Food, Feasts, and Faith: An Encyclopedia of Food Culture in World Religions [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO [https://books.google.com/books?id=P-FqDgAAQBAJ&dq=hola+mohalla&pg=PA270]</ref><ref>Yang, Ananad. A. (1998) Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Gangetic Biharr University of California Press [https://books.google.com/books?id=D5lQutvzAp4C&dq=holi+first+day+of+chait&pg=PA133]</ref>