The hill-tribes of Assam live in the districts of Garo Hills, United Khasi and Jaintia Hills (Both the districts now belong to Meghalaya), United Mikir and North Cachar Hills and their Mizo Hills. In their variety, their sense of beauty and attractiveness and their rich folk culture, these tribes are magnificent and bewildering. In scenic beauty, their land stands almost unrivalled in India. Equally powerful and magnificent are the folk-tales prevalent in this vast area, which Sri S.N. Barkataki has meticulously compiled for this volume.
This volume contains 128 folk-tales belonging to different tribes of the hills. Folk-tales, more than anything else, reflect the mind of a people. These tales reveal the astonishing old cultural patterns of the hill-tribes, their religiuos beliefs, their behaviour and habits and customs. Popular stories are told primarily to provide entertainment, but as the fields of folk-tales and social anthropology are not rigidly separated, we should be able to know a lot about the anthropological development of these people from the stories.
Sri Barkataki, former Chairman of the Assam Public Service Commission, and a powerful writer in both English and Assamese, has done a great service in compiling the folk-tales from different sources. He has travelled widely in the hills in the capacity of a senior Civil Service officer and recaptured the beauty and simplicity of the folk-tales in a lively style, which makes the stories irresistible reading.
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