RECONSTRUCTING TRIBAL IDENTITY: A STUDY FROM CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES OF ODISHA

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DR.KRUSHNA CHANDRA RAITA

KEY WORD: Tribal, Hill and Forest, Culture perspectives, Sprite, Space and time, Odia culture, Adivasi, Vedic,Epic.

ABSTRACT: The tribe is one of the oldest primitive structures of the society in the world. The Geographic situation of the tribal villages surrounded by hills and forests away from the main developed areas and lacking in communication facilities stood in the way of a systematic improvement in the conditions of the community. The advancement and integration of the backward people, especially the tribes, was one of the national objectives. The wide gap between the tribals and the non-tribals needed to be narrowed down as quickly as possible. This required conservation of forests because the tribes were directly or indirectly dependent on forests everywhere in India. The tribals of Odisha from its cultural perspectives needs dynamism in experiencing „the human experiences‟ of „the past flowing through the present‟, manifesting itself in diversified „spirit‟ being bound by „space and time‟ and following a mechanism of withdrawal and return .The mechanism should be explained in terms of identifying twin processes of emerging Odia culture in the present scenario, i.e., Oriyanisation of the tribes and tribalisation of the Odias. In most places the tribes and forests were synonymous in meaning and mutual existence. This relationship was not only strong but also dynamic. India is a land of tribals. The history of the tribals occupies a unique position in the annals of mankind. The tribals belonging to innumerable primitive tribes have inhabited Odisha from time immemorial. They are generally called the Adivasis, implying original inhabitants. The ancient and medieval sources of information including the Vedic and the Epic literature mention

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DR.KRUSHNA CHANDRA RAITA (February-2024). RECONSTRUCTING TRIBAL IDENTITY: A STUDY FROM CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES OF ODISHA. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 9(2), d14-d19. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2402302.pdf

Volume 9 Issue 2, February-2024

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Research Area: Social Science and Humanities 

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Country: Gajapati, Odisha, India

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