An attempt is made in this volume to delineate how history is carefully blended with the oral tradition to construct a picture of the past. The balled Jangiyar Geet, the 'Song of the warriors', is a very valuable source material in formulating the appropriate history of our glorious past--the War of independence, 1857. The common people, primarily the fishermen community and the peasantry, till today, recite in mass gatherings commemorating the sacrifice of the ...
