Raam Kumar T.

Northeast India is known for its diverse ethnic traits, natural landscapes, and regional and political conflicts. These factors were brought to light through diverse literary narratives. Women's contribution to English writing plays a prominent role in protecting the complex multi-ethnic and multi-cultural issues of their regions and captures the multicoloured historical and collective spaces. Their writing primarily focuses on the issues of nature, landscape, culture, oppression, conflict, turmoil, insurgency, and identity. Women's writings from these regions have attained visibility and acclaim across the nation. They are deeply concerned about the brutal violence happening in their society, which acts as a barrier to achieving progress. This chapter attempts to analyse the select contemporary tribal women's writings and their unique contribution to the betterment of their native land. This study also explores the struggle of indigenous identity and psychosocial experiences undergone by tribal communities of Northeast India through select tribal writers in English.

Northeast India is known for its diverse ethnic traits, natural landscapes, and regional and political conflicts. These factors were brought to light through diverse literary narratives. Women's contribution to English writing plays a prominent role in protecting the complex multi-ethnic and multi-cultural issues of their regions and captures the multicoloured historical and collective spaces. Their writing primarily focuses on the issues of nature, landscape, culture, oppression, conflict, turmoil, insurgency, and identity. Women's writings from these regions have attained visibility and acclaim across the nation. They are deeply concerned about the brutal violence happening in their society, which acts as a barrier to achieving progress. This chapter attempts to analyse the select contemporary tribal women's writings and their unique contribution to the betterment of their native land. This study also explores the struggle of indigenous identity and psychosocial experi...

India has a variety of indigenous groups scattered around the nation, and these indigenous groups possess unique socio-cultural elements. The tribal people are defined along with their landscapes as their lives are inseparably intertwined with the lands in which they live. Though they are the native inhabitants of their land, they were subjected to experience marginalisation, survival crisis, migration, inequality and poverty in their own place. They were often forced to leave their own lands for various reasons like industrialisation and this massive displacement poses
a severe threat to their communal existence. Forced displacement and imposed marginalisation create an existential crisis for the indigenous people as they struggle very much to preserve their customs, tradition and ethnic identity in a hostile environment. The women of the tribal communities suffer more than men as they experience discrimination and subjugation within their communities also. This paper attempts to analyse the torments experienced by one of the dominant tribal groups, the Santhals, in Jharkhand through the work The Adivasi Will Not Dance by
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, who himself is a Santhal. The paper discusses on the struggles of the tribal people in combating social exclusion and ethnic discrimination.
Keywords: Social exclusion, Women marginalisation, Santhal tribes, Migration, Feminization

The North Eastern states of India are known for their myths, cultural tradition, folklores and nature which found their expression in many forms of literature. Though this region is gifted by Mother Nature with abundant resources and unblemished beauty it also witnesses bloodshed, violence, turmoil and conflicts in the names of ethnicity, race and national identity. People of this region suffer from various forms of oppression and they are not in a position to find solutions to the problems they face. Their helplessness and lack of political power or support make them vulnerable to oppression and violence. Temsula Ao, the emerging English writer from the Naga community brings out the sufferings and pain of this region through her writings. Violence, which has become the part of their day to day life, is the primary theme of her works and she portrays the significant impact of violence on the people of Nagaland which deprives peace, harmony and other fundamental requirements of coexi...

Violence constantly carries trauma and suffering to combatants as well as non- combatants identically. It also brings enmity and negativity to everyone both emotionally and physically. The cause for any conflict does not emerge from single motive but depends on multiple factors like socioeconomic conditions, marginalisation, discrimination, political power and sometimes even environmental elements. In recent times, the conflicts often emerge among various regional groups rather than states. North Eastern part of India is one of the hotspots for such ethnic conflicts and violence. The major motives for bloody conflict between Indian Army and the underground armed rebels are perceived political imbalance and desire for a separate nation. Even the common civilians are forced to join the rebel groups without knowing consequences. Temsula Ao is one of the prominent English writers from Nagaland who through her moving narratives brings out the existent misery of conflict in her native lan...

Violence constantly carries trauma and suffering to combatants as well as non-combatants identically. It also brings enmity and negativity to everyone both emotionally and physically. The cause for any conflict does not emerge from single motive but depends on multiple factors like socioeconomic conditions, marginalisation, discrimination, political power and sometimes even environmental elements. In recent times, the conflicts often emerge among various regional groups rather than states. North Eastern part of India is one of the hotspots for such ethnic conflicts and violence. The major motives for bloody conflict between Indian Army and the underground armed rebels are perceived political imbalance and desire for a separate nation. Even the common civilians are forced to join the rebel groups without knowing consequences. Temsula Ao is one of the prominent English writers from Nagaland who through her moving narratives brings out the existent misery of conflict in her native land...