“Folk Traditions and Indian Literature” is a book through studies on Indian traditions and their share in Indian literature. The main focus is on Folk literature forms a vast corpus of legends, stories, fables, fairy-tales, religious tales and mythological tales present in oral as well as the written practice of culture, language, and people. In fact, folk literature has been considered synonymous with oral literature. It also highlights Folk literature represents limitless literary pursuits that keep evolving, progressing, adapting, and reorienting along with the dynamism of time and need of the people who create, possess, and further folklore generation after generation. Folk literature is characterized by the people it belongs to. Therefore it will not be wrong to call it people’s literature. Folk literature emerges out of people’s desires, aspirations, creativity, and aesthetic impulse and it is closely related to people’s lives and experiences, efforts to resolve the conflicts, struggles to better the life, emotional and intellectual journeys, reason and rationality, issues of existence and conservation as well as preservation of nature.
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Dr. Anita Ghosh Paul
Dr. Anita Ghosh is a great scholar of the English language and literature. She has been teaching English as Associate Professor in the Post Graduate Department English at Ram Dayalu Singh College, Muzaffarpur under B.R.A. Bihar University for forty years. Her specialized studies have been made in Poetry, Criticism, and Indian music and culture. She has so far written three books and contributed research articles in both national and international journals. She delivered brilliant lectures in the national seminars. She is multilingual and well-versed in Bengali literature and music. She lives in Muzaffarpur (Bihar) along with her husband Professor S. K. Paul who is a well-established author in English, Bengali and Hindi.
