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In many parts of the world fair is an intimate part of the rural economy, especially in countries like India near about 75 percent population is rural. Fair is also a periodic market but with a different that their occurrence is occasional, may be once or twice a year and serve a wider are not only economically but socially, religiously and culturally also, the fairs are held in all part of India and in the area under study. Aurangabad District is more frequent and form in integral part of rural social life. Fairs in the district are not an exhibition event as fairs held in big cities but these are marketing occasions for the rural inhabitants. As deef (1937,139) has remarked, fairs have served as stimuli to trade upon which in many instances of economic welfare, at an entire community depends.