When: Chaturthi of Bhadrapada; between 22 August and 20 September.1
About
Families install clay images at home with offerings of modak and durva grass, and end the festival with a procession and immersion in water after one and a half to eleven days.1
In Karnataka the Gowri festival comes the day before. The large public festival dates from 1893, when Bal Gangadhar Tilak promoted it in his newspaper Kesari.1
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- Encyclopedia Ganesh Chaturthi — Wikipedia · accessed 2026-11-08
Researched 2026-11-08 from the cited sources. Community corrections are welcome; traditions differ, and differences are shown rather than resolved.