Folk Life and Culture of Odisha
Book Specification
Item Code: | AZG368 |
Author: | Bhagabana Sahu |
Publisher: | KAVERI BOOKS |
Language: | ENGLISH |
Edition: | 2015 |
ISBN: | 9788174791702 |
Pages: | 368 (Throughout Color Illustrations) |
Cover: | HARDCOVER |
Other Details | 9.00x6.00 inch |
Weight | 560 gm |
Book Description
The work be highly useful the administrators and the general readers as well.
contributed large number of research papers and articles many edited Books and conferences, seminars and workshops. His scholarly books include Princely States Orissa under British Crown: 1858-1905: Cultural History Orissa: 1435-1751; and Socio Economic Cultural History Orissa. Presently working as Professor History in Berhampur University and engaged various research activities.
The southern part of modern comprising of seven districts Ganjam, Gajapati, Rayagada, Koraput, Nabarangapur, Malkangiri and Kandhamal originally formed a part of the ancient kingdom Kalinga was supposed to have been in 9th century B.C. Hemmed in the by the sea, and on all by ranges of mountains and dense forests, intersected by rivers, south Odisha, has a distinct pattern of life, art and her own. Her gods, goddess’s temples, structure, dance and festivals have all developed fascinating individual variants as in India.
The study of folk culture, particularly of a region, is of prime importance because "the history of a nation or country cannot be comprehensive or exhaustive without the proper study of its component parts. The history of the component units subscribes much to the main-stream of national history. The richer the regional history, national history becomes more extensive and comprehensive". In this perceptive, the study of the different aspects of the folk culture of south Odisha during 19th and 20th centuries seems to be quite imperative and relevant.
Several factors are attributed to shape south Odisha's folk cultural heritage. The geographical situation of the region is the prime factor to rear up of such a culture. Lying between north and south India across a natural highway along the eastern coast of India, south Odisha acts like a bridge between the Aryan culture of north and Dravidian culture of south.
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