Muharram: The principle Muslim festivals are the Muharram and the two Ids. The month of Muharram is the first month of the Muslim year, and the first ten days are devoted to mourning for the death of Hussain and his family. This is observed indifferently by Sunnis and Sias, and the proceedings with the Sunnis as at any rate have now rather the character of a festival than a time of sorrow. Models of the tomb of Hussain, called Tazia or tabut are made of bamboo and pasteboard and decorated with tinsel. These are taken in procession and deposited in a river on the last and great day of the Muharram. Woman who have made vows for the recovery of their children form an illness dress them in green and send them to beg : and men and boys of the lower classes having themselves painted as tigers go about mimicking as a tiger for what they can get from the spectators. At the Muharram models of horse-shoes made after the caste shoe of Kasim's horse are carried fixed on poles in a procession. Men who feel so impelled and think that they will be possessed by the spirit, exhibiting the usual symptoms of a kind of frenzy, and women apply to them for children or for having evil spirits cast out.

Ramzan Id: The Id-ul-Fitr, commonly known as Ramzan id, or the breaking of the fast, is held on the first day of the tenth month, svval. Throughout the preceding month of Ramzan a general fast is observed. On this day the people assemble dressed in their best clothes and proceed to the Id-gah, a building erected outside the town they escort the Kazi or other Muslim of high position to the Id-Gah who then offers prayers. A sermon in Arabic in praise of the id is read by the Kazi standing on pulpit, wooden staff in hand in imitation of the Prophet. When the prayers and sermon are over, the people return to their houses and spend the rest of the day in feasting and merriment.

Bakr Id: The Id-ul-Azha or Id-ul-Zoha, the feast of sacrifice, also called the Bakr-Id, is held on the tenth day of the last month, zil-Hijjah. On this day, as on the other Id, the people assemble for prayers at the Id-Gah, On returning home the head of the family takes a sheep, cow (or camel) to the entrance of his house and sacrifices it, repeating the formula, "In the name of God", "God is great" as he cuts its throat. The flesh is divided, two-thirds being kept by the family and one-third given to the poor in the name of God. this is the occasion on which Muhammedans offend Hindu feeling by their desire to sacrifice cows, and the sacrifice of a cow has probably more religious merit than that of a sheep or goat. But in many cases they abandon their right to kill a cow in order to avoid stirring up enmity.