Description

The dialects and languages spoken by tribals in India are very large in number. The literary compositions in most of them have survived in oral form though some tribal languages have taken to writing as a means of recording literary compositions. Conventionally, they have been perceived as mere anthropological curiosity, or at best a source for oral history. They have rarely been translated into English or an Indian language as a representation of tribal imagination.

In order to meet the long-felt need for bringing out a systematic series of India’s tribal literature, Sahitya Akademi has established a Project of Indian Literature in Tribal Languages and Oral Traditions. This volume is an outcome of it.