1857 In North East A Reconstruction From Folk And Oral Sources

An attempt is made in this volume to delineate how history is carefully blended with the oral tradition to construct a picture of the past. The Balled Jangiyar Geet, the Song of the warriors is a very formulating the appropriate history of our glorious past, 1857. The common people, primarily the fishermen community and the peasantry, till today, recite in masss gatherings conmmenmoration the sacrifice of patriotic soldiers of the 34 the N I Regiment, who embraced martyrdom to liberate the motherland from the british. The events and the reation and the attitude of the people as reflected in these songs and folk ballad help us reconstruct the so called history of the power and his allays, and can make the history of the voiceless, a popular history of our own. ISBN:9788183701310 Yr. of Pub.