History Of Indian Poetry

Northeast is always placed outside the domain of studies of the Indian cultural history. This region had been unstable and also unpredictable since they had to face continuous conflict and bloodshed for surviving in the territory full of challenges. Despite these challenges, the Northeast Indian poetry has emerged as a major voice in the world of literature today. Most of these poems are marked by a kind of anxiety that forms the basis of all great poetry. It is at once categorized as the poetry of bloodshed and hostility, of torpidity and apprehension but it is also the poetry of the terrorized souls in search of peace.

Marginalization of the people of this region could be seen in vogue in the historical writings as well as the theoretical framework of the intellectuals. Popular intellectuals of the academic circle such as Eric Wolf’s ‘people without history’, E.P Thompson’s ‘ unsung voices of history’, Genovese’s ‘ objects and subjects of history’, Ranajit Guha’s ‘Subaltern’, Lacan’s ‘ others’, Sharia’s ‘ hybrid histories’ and many other intellectuals continuously questions the validity of the existing orthodox historical discourses of the marginalized down through the ages. The mainstream society carries on a continuous, harsh and systematic attack on the social system of the Northeast, their culture, their tribal identity and their way of life. The debts of mainstream India to the efforts and struggles of the tribes of this region during the colonial regime and even in the pre- colonial days should be acknowledged by re- writing the history of our country. The history of their struggles is not only documented in their scripts but also in their folktales, dances and songs that passed on from one generation to the other. In sh...

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..., memories and reality and the essence of oral culture. Through these stories the author tries to give voice to these ‘peripheral people’ continuously suppressed by the present reality. The Adi people still cherish an unflinching faith in those things that is woven around the forest ecology and their peaceful co-existence with the world around. Unfolding the various myths that strongly influence the lives of these hill people, these poems of Mamang Dai are a sonorous and touching tribute to the human spirit. These poems also echo the lost tradition and the cultural dynamics of these Adi people. In one of her novel, The Legend of Perisam (2006) a character, Raket, is of the view that “We are peripheral people. Everywhere, people like us, we turn with the world. Our lives turned, and in the circle who could tell where was the beginning and where the end? We are just