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interest to note that in no other places of pilgrimage or religious mela in Bengal, there
is a larger collection of Sannyasis as we find at Ganga Sagar mela. Every year a number of
Naga Sadhus visit the mela. The mela used to attract before a very large quantity of indigenous wooden toys, dolls and animals. Due to the proximity of the Sundarbans, the presence of a large quantity of toy wooden tigers is under- standable. There was a large turn-over of these wooden wares. It is a great pity that this old handicraft is now on the decline and plastic toys are now having a large turn-over. There are now quite a number of
Sannyasis who have settled down at Ganga Sagar. The Sadhus are dependent on the
charities of the traders that go to Sundarbans for collecting wood, honey and
bee-wax. There has been a great 5 District Gazetteer of 24-Parganas by L.S.S. O’Malley, pp. 257-258. |
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