• Deserted Villages and Destroyed Dreams: An Indication of Culture Extinction

    Author(s):
    Rajesh Bojan (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Subject(s):
    English literature, Culture, Badaga literature, Badaga (Indic people), India--Nilgiri Hills
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    migrants, dislocation, badagas, badaga community, culture extinction, rajesh bojan
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/d4pv-d714
    Abstract:
    What I propose to pen in the following pages is not about the history of my people, but about their contemporary condition of living that I aspire to explore. I come from the badaga community, a distinctive sect of tribes accommodating most regions of the Nilgiri district of Tamil Nadu. I have no doubt that those who are familiar with the Nilgiri district are well aware of the people in it. Especially, nobody would have left their thoughts of Nilgiris without contemplating about the special race of people that the district is blessed with. It is quite an unfortunate thing that so far a community with such cultural merits has remained unpopular and out of the picture due to lack of script. We have been incapable of expressing ourselves, our culture, customs and rituals in the form of historical records. It is a great disadvantage to live without a language of our own to express. We have indeed lost our finest antiquity and the lifestyle of our forefathers entirely due to lack of education and script. It is at the same time very disappointing to mention the fact that among us not many have attempted to investigate or research our origin. Undeniably, it is true that we have not shown interest into our own community even to the extent it was considered with admiration by scholars from abroad. This paper will attempt to explore the contemporary condition of the badaga people specifically focusing on the impact of dislocation.
    Notes:
    This article by Rajesh Bojan explores the contemporary condition of the badaga people specifically focusing on dislocation and its impact on the community.
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.56602/TDJ/1.1.44-48
    Publisher:
    The Dawn Publishers
    Pub. Date:
    2022-8-10
    Journal:
    The Dawn Journal
    Volume:
    1
    Issue:
    1
    Page Range:
    44 - 48
    ISSN:
    2277-1786
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    10 months ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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