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Hola Mohalla is the most important religious festival for the Sikhs and is celebrated with great enthusiasm and devotion by the Sikh community around the world. The three-day Sikh festival of Hola Mohalla is celebrated annually in the month of March, usually one day after the Hindu festival of Holi.

During this festival, processions are organized in the form of army-type columns accompanied by war drums and standard-bearers, proceeding to a given spot or moving in state from one Gurdwara to another. On this three-day grand festival, mock battles, exhibitions, displays of weapons, etc. are held, followed by Kirtan, music, and poetry competitions. The participants perform daring feats, such as Gatka (mock encounters with real weapons), tent pegging, bareback horse-riding, standing erect on two speeding horses, and various other feats of bravery.

Sikhs in large numbers still assemble at Anandpur Sahib on this day and an impressive and colorful procession is taken out in which the Nihangs, in their traditional panoply, form the vanguard while parading their skill in the use of arms, horsemanship, tent-pegging, and other war-like sports.The most spectacular event at Hola Mahalla is the magnificent procession of Nihangs on horses and elephants and on foot carrying a variety of traditional and modern weapons and demonstrating their skill in using them.

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