Tribal Songs, Ballads and Oral Epics of Bastar, is a study that is perhaps the first of its kind. Folk songs/poetry in Bastar has hitherto been viewed from th perspective fo anthropology and/ or history. No one yet is known to have examined the socio-religious songs/poetry of the tribes in Bastar from the perspective of literary criticism. This is a new turf for studies on tribal societies in India, and to that extent this book breaks new ground and sets new ...
