Odishara Adibasi Sanskruti: Pramukha Abadharana

This short and fascinating book is written from the perspective of the outsider and of the insider as well, which cannot be said about most of the studies on the life and the culture of the janajatis of Odisha in Odia language. Very informative and eminently readable, this book will be of much use to the specialists and the non-specialists alike.

B. N. Patnaik
(Retired) Professor of English and Linguistics, IIT Kanpur, India

Tribal studies as an area of investigation have long been treated as a part of Cultural anthropology. Others who tried to enter the arena of tribal life at different times could not move beyond the scope of literary analysis of the cultural narratives of the indigenous communities. In the given scenario the present work, Odisharara Adibasi Sanskruti: Pramukha Abadharana will be a scholarly attempt to explore an area under the discipline, Community studies. It is expected to argue in favour of ‘Tribal-life’ at par with Folklife (in place of Folklore) in the west.

P. C. Pattanaik
Professor, Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies,
University of Delhi, Delhi

Odisharara Adibasi Sanskruti: Pramukha Abadharana is based on tribal culture, their love of nature, religious rituals, love and affections, worship of personality, hope and philosophy. The data of the book have been properly systematized and highly documented. The arrangement of tribal facts in alphabetical order is quite convincing. Hope, this book will be very essential for the scholars and as well as general readers.

N. Sahoo
Prof. of Emirates, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar

The work Odisharara Adibasi Sanskruti: Pramukha Abadharana enumerates the unknown elements of Tribal culture of Odisha and their living tradition. Such action certainly unfurls the unexplored cultural traits of the tribal life-world and their knowledge system that is amply helpful to the other part of the civilization.

M. K. Mishra
Chief Editor, Lokaratna (a Peer-Reviewed International Journal in Arts and Humanities)

Sanjaya Kumar Bag (born 1976) earned his Master’s Degree in Odia Literature from the Post-Graduate Department of Odia, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, and Ph.D. on folklore studies from the Department of Modern Indian Language and Literary Studies, the University of Delhi. As a creative writer, he has published two anthologies of short stories Barnabodha O Madhubabunka Katha (2009), and Birnang Debi (2017), and published Paschima Odishara Paramparika Krida: Eka Lokatattwitika Adhyayana (2009), Lokadhara: Sarjanasheela Jibanadharara Adyayana (2012), and Odishara Lokakreeda (2017), as his research works. Currently, he teaches Odia in Eastern Regional Language Centre, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.