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Visit to Temples and Interaction

Visit to Temples

Visited Ramdev temples at Sujandesar,SadarBazar, Bada Bazar, Ramsar in Bikaner district in March, 2001

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Visited the main temple of Ramdev at Runecha in Jalsalmer district in March 2001.

Visited the temple ofRamdev at Masuria, Mandore in October, 2000

Visited the temple of Pabu at Qasba Gangasar and Ranisar in Bikaner district in March, . 2001

Visited the main temple of Goga in GogaMeri in Hanumangarh district in September, 1999

Visited the temple of Goga at village Gangasar in Bikaner district in March, 2001

Visited the fair of Goga at the main shrine at Gogameri in Nohar district on 9th and 1oth Sept., 1999

Participated in a Jama Jagran ofRamdev at Munda in Ganganagar in May,2000

Witnessed the Phad Bachana ofPabu in Bikaner town in Oct, 1999

Interviews:

Interviewed approximately 80 devotees and fifteen Jogi's and Bhagats at the fair ofGoga in Gogameri in Hanumangarh district on 9th and lOth September 1999.

Interviewed nearly 25 devotees, three Pujaris, the Tanver dynasty successors of Ramdev­Sagat Singh, Sultan Singh,Durjan Singh and Narayan Singh Tanvar and 15 shopkeepers and 1 0 eatery owners at Ramdev temple in Runecha in march 200 I

Interviewed a Bhajan Mandali of approximately eight devotees in Ramdev Temple at Runecha in Jaisalmer district in march 2001

Interviewed twenty devotees, one Pujari and six members of the temple trust in Ramdev temple at Masuria in Jodhpur in Oct 2000.

Interacted with approximately fifty five available devotees and Pujaris in the various temples of Ramdev at Sujandesar, Bade Bazar, Ramsar, Gangasar, Ranisar, Sadar Bazar and other temples at Bikaner district in march 2001.

Interviewed Devaram, Jetaram, Sheethram and Manvar-members of Bhajan Mandali of Ramdev temple at Sujandesar in Bikaner district on the month of march 2001

Interviewed around twenty people and four Pujaris in the temples of Pabu and Goga at Ramsar in Bikaner district in march, 2001

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