Tribal Language, Literature and Folklore Emerging Approaches in Tribal Studies

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Language Culture, Language, Orality and Documentation: Methodological observations after twenty years of Research in North-East India ...........35 Odisha: The Hyphen in the North-South contact and Coveragence ..........50 Hindustani loans in Khasi, Chakma and Kokborok ..............60 Recapturing voices for Preservation of Language rights ..............77 Understanding bugun Identity through a Study of their Language...........91 Tribal Languages of Jharkhand: Issues and challenges .............105 Multilingualism and Educational Status of the Savara tribe in Andhra pradesh ................119 English Translations of Paraja and cultural Deviation...........129 2. Literature Santal Perceptions of Poverty In oral and written Literature .........143 Representation of Colonial Modernity in Ethnographic Novals in Indian Literature .....................163 Womanism versus Feminism :A study of Select tribal Fictional Narratives .................177 Different shades of Feminity : A comparative study of the representation of Two Major female Characters in K S Karanth`s the Headman of the little hill .................191 Voices of Poets on Contemporary maladies in Naga Society ...........201 Palimpsest of Indigenous Communities and Myths: An investigation of Selected Literary and Social Texts in India ...................216 3. Folklore Trickster as First ancestor: Abo tani and his rival in the Eastern himalayas......................244 Blunder, punishment and penance :A galo Eschatology over Time .................244 Telling it Right: Three Formation myths and Patterns of Socio-Political Power ............256 The Un Divided consciousness : Supernaturalism and Realism in Paite oral narratives ....................................264