Devaragutta Dasara festival

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Devaragutta Dasara festival is a festival celebrated during Hindu festival, Dasara in Devaragutta in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India.[1] It is a violent form of celebration where people from three villages fight with long bamboo sticks. Many devotees who participate in the fight get injured.[2]

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  1. ^ "Weird festivals in Kurnool villages". The New Indian Express. 16 May 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Seventy injured in annual bloody sport in Andhra". Yahoo News India. 7 October 2011. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2021.