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Jashn-e-Chiragah

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Jashn-e-Chiragah is a festival of Lights established by Akbar the Mughals King around 400 years ago. It is a version of Deepavali.

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Jashn-e-Chiragah is a festival of Lights established by Akbar the Mughals King around 400 years ago.

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02 · Where & name
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03 · How it is doing
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Jashn-e-Chiragah is a festival of Lights established by Akbar the Mughals King around 400 years ago.

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Jashn-e-Chiragah is a festival of Lights established by Akbar the Mughals King around 400 years ago. It is a version of Deepavali.

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Jashn-e-Chiragah”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.

Jashn-e-Chiragah is Muslim Festival, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1

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