A Peer-Reviewed Internatinal Literary Quarterly Journal
Rock Pebbles
March - 2022 * Vol. XXVI No. I
It is high time the focus of the critics
and research scholars shifted from urban/
metropolitan to rural/tribal or Adivasi
literature.The forces of the urbanisation,print
culture and commecialisation have resulted not
only in keeping the Adivasi communities
marginalised but also have adversely affected
their laguages and literary cultures .Tribes in
India are still thousand miles away from the
mainstream of the society: the urban and
metropolitan.However,it should not be pushed
to oblivion that the roots of Indian literary
tradition lies in the rich oral literature of the
tribes/Adivasi/Banavasi.Their verses , in the
form of songs or chantings are expressions of
their existence and close connection with their
soil and the world of nature.