Chapter 24 - Tribal Verse

 'Adi Song for the Recovery of Lost Health' is in Miri Agom while Adi Agom is the Adi community's language for routine conversation. How does this reflect upon the high level of language sensitivity of the Adi? Can you think of other parallels in modern languages between the literary variety and the colloquial variety?

How does 'A Munda song' show that the perspective of the tribal mind towards the girl child is different from that of [other ] mainstream communities?

 While tribal communities may not seem to possess the scientific temper,there are many ideas from tribal conventions that could enrich modern societies.

Because India's tribal communities are basically bilingual there is a danger of dismissing their languages as dialects of India's major tongues.

“Tribal arts are not specifically meant for sale.” Does this help or hamper their growth and preservation?

 'It is time to realise that unless we modify the established notion of literature as something written, we will silently witness the decline of various Indian oral traditions'

New Literature' is a misnomer for the wealth of the Indian Literary tradition. How does G. N. Devy explain this?

New Literature' is a misnomer for the wealth of the Indian Literary tradition. How does G. N. Devy explain this?

List the distinctive features of the tribal arts.

 How does G. N. Devy bring out the importance of the oral literary tradition?

What distinguishes the tribal imagination from the secular imagination?

 Identify the common characteristics shared by tribal communities all over the world.