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Rampur’s Lavi Fair: Storytelling through 300 years of Himalayan trade and tradition

Rampur’s Lavi Fair: Storytelling through 300 years of Himalayan trade and tradition

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Karunadotsava focuses on stone records at Begur that document early battles, villages and faiths around Bengaluru, and also recounts the popular legend that Hoysala King Veera Ballala II, during a hunting expedition, was offered boiled beans by an elderly woman and named the settlement Benda‑kaal‑uru, meaning “town of boiled beans.”

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Rampur Bushahr’s Lavi Fair in Himachal Pradesh traces a Himalayan journey from wool and barter to women entrepreneurs and digital payments

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First reported by Livemint at 16:29 UTC on 25 Oct.

Coverage ran for about 18 days.

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    Rampur’s Lavi Fair: Storytelling through 300 years of Himalayan trade and tradition

    Rampur Bushahr’s Lavi Fair in Himachal Pradesh traces a Himalayan journey from wool and barter to women entrepreneurs and digital payments

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    Karunadotsava: Begur’s stone records reveal Bengaluru’s early battles, villages and faiths

    How did Bengaluru get its name? The most famous legend says that Hoysala King Veera Ballala II, on one of his hunting expeditions, stumbled upon an old dwelling where lived an old woman. She served him some boiled beans. Overwhelmed, he named the place Benda-kaal-uru (the town of boiled beans…

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