LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 17:11 November 2017
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Bodo Poets: A New Beginning

Barnali Sikder


Courtesy: http://www.nezine.com/info/Few%20Poems%20of%20Anil%20Boro

The Question of Ethnicity and Identity

The northeastern part of India is formed with seven states which include Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Tripura, and Sikkim. All these states are known for its natural beauty, its exotic food, its vibrant culture, and its tribes, but when it comes to the question of literature and literary understanding of the writers from this region no one can trace a single and specific flavor of literature of this region. It is mainly because different tribes from this region carry different sentiment for this region. Difference in culture and language never allowed them to thrive towards a common goal but it may be said that literature from north-east often carry the question of ethnicity and identity.

From writers like Laxminath Bezborua to Hemen Borgohain carry a legacy of projecting Assamese “Tholua Sanskrity” - that can be translated as “ethnic culture”. Within this ethnic cultural space of Assamese literature, many writers are writing in Tribal languages of greater Assam.

Within this well nurtured ethnic cultural space of Assamese literature, like many other tribes such as Bodos are trying to secure their space. Dr. Anil Boro is one of such writers, who writes in the language Bodo and he himself translates them into English. Before going deep into some of Dr. Anil Boro’s writings, here the need to explore a bit on various aspects of this particular tribe can be felt. Without understanding the background in which these Bodo writers are writing, it will not be possible to justify any reading on either their language or their literature.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Barnali Sikder
Assistant Professor
Janata College
Serfanguri 783346
Assam
India
barnaliunlesahed@gmail.com

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