Question: Which Indian national holidays are observed in all its states and union territories?
About the article "India", section "Society".

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National holidays are observed in all states and union territories.
India has three national days.
They are: 
Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated yearly on 2 October.
It is one of the three official declared National Holidays of India, and is observed in all of its states and union territories.
The other two are Independence Day (15 August) and Republic Day (26 January).
Gandhi Jayanti is marked by prayer services and tributes all over India, especially at Raj Ghat, Gandhi's memorial in New Delhi where he was cremated.
Popular celebration includes prayer meetings, commemorative ceremonies in different cities by colleges, local government institutions and socio-political institutions.
Painting and essay competitions are conducted and best awards are granted for projects in schools and the community on themes of glorifying peace, non-violence and Gandhi's effort in Indian Freedom Struggle.
Gandhi's favourite devotional song, "Raghupathi Raghava Rajaram", is usually sung in memory of him. 
Traditional Indian society is sometimes defined by social hierarchy.
The Indian caste system embodies much of the social stratification and many of the social restrictions found in the Indian subcontinent.
Social classes are defined by thousands of endogamous hereditary groups, often termed as "jātis", or "castes".
India declared the caste system and untouchability to be illegal in 1947 and has since enacted other anti-discriminatory laws and social welfare initiatives.
At the workplace in urban India and in international or leading Indian companies, the caste related identification has pretty much lost its importance.
Family values are important in the Indian tradition, and multi-generational patriarchal joint families have been the norm in India, though nuclear families are becoming common in urban areas.
An overwhelming majority of Indians, with their consent, have their marriages arranged by their parents or other family members.
Marriage is thought to be for life, and the divorce rate is extremely low.
Child marriages are common, especially in rural areas; many women in India wed before reaching 18, which is their legal marriageable age.
Female infanticide in India and female foeticide in India have caused a discrepancy in the sex ratio, as of 2005 it was estimated that there were 50 million more males than females in the nation.
However the recent report from 2011 shown improvement among the gender ratio.
The payment of Dowry, although illegal, remains widespread across class lines.
Deaths resulting from dowry, mostly from bride burning, is on the rise.
Many Indian festivals are religious in origin; among them are Chhath, Christmas, Diwali, Durga Puja, Bakr-Id, Eid ul-Fitr, Ganesh Chaturthi, Holi, Makar Sankranti or Uttarayan, Navratri, Thai Pongal, and Vaisakhi.
India has three national holidays which are observed in all states and union territories: Republic Day, Independence Day, and Gandhi Jayanti.
Other sets of holidays, varying between nine and twelve, are officially observed in individual states.
Throughout India, many people practice customs and religious rituals, such as "samskara," which is a series of "personal sacraments and rites conducted at various stages throughout life."
For constitutional reasons, the United States does not have national holidays in the sense that most other nations do, i.e.
days on which all businesses are closed by law and employees have a day off.
Pursuant to the Tenth Amendment, the U.S. federal government only has constitutional jurisdiction to establish holidays for itself, for certain federally chartered and regulated businesses (such as federal banks), and for Washington, D.C.; otherwise, constitutional authority to create public holidays is a power reserved to the states.
Most states also allow local jurisdictions (cities, villages, etc.)
to establish their own local holidays.
As a result, holidays are not governed at the federal level as each state has jurisdiction over its holidays.
Although holidays are declared as official, the government, whether it be federal, state, or local, cannot dictate to businesses when they need to officially close., there are eleven federal holidays in the United States, ten annual holidays and one quadrennial holiday (Inauguration Day).
Pursuant to the Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1968 (effective 1971), official holidays are observed on a Monday, except for New Year's Day, Independence Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
All current federal holidays have also been made public holidays in all 50 states.
States are not bound to observe the holidays on the same dates as the federal holidays but they are free to do as they will.
Many states also have additional holidays that are not observed by the U.S. federal government, such as Cesar Chavez Day (California, Colorado, and Texas), Emancipation Day (District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Texas, and the U.S. Virgin Islands), Susan B. Anthony Day (California, Florida, New York, Wisconsin, and West Virginia), and Good Friday (a legal holiday in 12 states).
The day after Thanksgiving is a public holiday in California.
Malls, shopping centers and most retail stores close only on Thanksgiving and Christmas and many on Easter Sunday as well, but remain open on all other holidays (early closing on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, and sometimes on other major holidays).
Virtually all companies observe and close on the major holidays (New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).
Some non-retail business close on the day after Thanksgiving (Black Friday) while some (such as federal banks and post offices) are not allowed to close on the day after Thanksgiving.
Some smaller businesses normally open on Sunday will close on Easter Sunday, if it is their experience they will have very few customers that day. 
A bank holiday in India is a public holiday which is declared specially for the Banks and other Financial Institutions.
Not all public holidays are classified as Bank Holidays.
Bank Holidays are declared by Central/State Governments/ Union Territory under the Negotiable Instruments (NI) Act, 1881.
India is a multicultural and multireligious society and celebrates holidays and festivals of various religions.
So in addition to the national holidays, many states and regions have local festivals depending on religious and linguistic demographics.
The State Governments declare the public holidays for each year.