The Blue Grove: The Poetry of the Uraons

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The Uraons are an aboriginal tribe of Dravidian stock concentrated in the western half of Chhota Nagpur in central India. The book contains translations of poems and marriage material collected by the author from various parts of Chhota Nagpur as Gumla, Jashpur Thana, in Ranchi. It is a beautiful collection of rare material pf the Uraon tibes. These poems are on marriage, Negotiations, Clinching Ceremony, omens, marriage sermons, beautifully translated without loosing essence of the matter. These poems also reveal the custom and folklore and character of the tribe of the tribe of the Uraon trive and the region. The book also contains the songs being sung by the Uraons danced on various occasions and festivals. The reader can also enjoy the songs and poems being sung by them at the time cultivation. The book is a comprehensive collection of these poems and songs of a very prominent tribe viz. Uraon of the Chhota Nagpur.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR W.G. Archer

W.G. Archer carried his passion for poetry and interest in art into his administrative career spread over sixteen years in the Indian Civil Service in Bihar. His interest in folk art in the remote jungles of West Bihar was reflected in the publication of the Vertical Man: A Study of Primitive Indian Sculpture (1947). He also published another volumes on Oraon poetry, The Dove and the Leopard (1948), translated with a poetâ€™s sensitivity. In December 1942 he was appointed Deputy Commissioner of the Santal Parganas. Before he finally left India on Premature retirement, he worked as Additional Deputy Commissioners, Mokokchung in Nagaland from November 1946 to February 1948. After 1949, Archer emerged as an eminent specialist on Indian painting, cultural and Poetry, becoming Keeper of the Indian Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.