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Bauls of Bengal pledge to delve deep into the inner recess of life of the community of singers to explore the basic understanding of their philosophy and sadhana. The study centres round the continuous appeal for searching the moner manus or Man of the Heart. It is exclusively based on long-term field investigations amongst this community of singers with rich cultural heritage. Their way of life is highly characterized by many peculiar behaviour-patterns and for ...
The Dalit issue is not only confined to a mere socio-political phenomenon, but it is seen to be deep-rooted into the historical context of the multi-caste social settings in India. There is no denying of the fact that the Dalits have been raising various thoughtful questions during the different times that are found to be reflected in the variegated behaviour-patterns and action-orientations of this oppressed group of humanity to having multifaceted ways and ...
The tradition-oriented rights of the tribal people of India on lands and forests are not only the indigenous issue developed long ago, but in most of the cases these surpass the frontiers of history. After their many-sided confrontations with the contemporary conceptions, the question of traditional rights and their feasibility has raised a lot of queries and counter-queries in the sphere of safeguarding the indiscriminate destruction of the forested environment ...
Sundarban--the beautiful forest--in the southern border of West Bengal is the richest mangrove ecosystem in the global perspective. It is not only charming as its name implies but is characterised by tremendous awe-inspiring nature having multitude of mangrove species and numerous dreadful animal forms both in land and water. The network of mangrove forest is criss-crossed by the turbulent rivers and estuaries which are abundant in fish population of multifarious ...
The Primitive Tribal Groups embrace such tribal people who are characteristically benighted in the different dimensions of their way of life. Economically they still indicate their specific trend of continuation of the archaic pattern of existence. Living very close to nature and their utter dependence on the bountiful natural resources their way of life and basic philosophy have been moulded accordingly and thus any sort of severance from this deep-rooted matrix ...