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The book Odishara Adibasi Sanskruti: Pramukha Abadharana (Tribal Culture of Odisha: Key Concepts) is based on the cultural tradition of tribals of Odisha narrated in Odia. There are 62 tribes in Odisha. They have their culture, worldviews, fair-festivals, arts and aesthetics. In this book, 201 cultural concepts have been narrated with and inserted in lexical structure. Once upon tribals as well as other ethnic communities are labeled as criminal tribes. After seventy years and after independence also they are described as savage, uneducated, blind-believer, and in so many ways. Often in Odisha, tribal area, we have seen tribal children are given branded hot jujube stick to children believing it will recover from bad health what could be seen as a negative result of that immediate believe, but is it blind-belief? If we see this in the intersectionality point of view, many from educated us visiting talisman, praying idol for immediate specific gain, that we all know, and the tribals who are still far away from proper education, health facilities, deprive economically are doing what available at their hands reach helplessly, so how one could state it as a blind-belief? The book is not only about tribal belief, it covers all other day-to-day practices, events, their concept of observing fair and festivals, foods habits, culinary tradition, and ritual related to those, also include the rite-de-passages, agricultural practices and the concepts therein, worshipping of god and goddesses, nature, other rite-rituals, verbal as well as performative tradition like dance, songs, art and crafts, and physical tradition like artefacts. Apart from these some abstract concepts, word views like concepts of weather, earth and water, the relationship between individual and communities, the neighboring ethnic groups also have been incorporated.

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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)

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)

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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.

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