FOLK TRADITIONS AND INDIAN LITERATURE

“Folk Traditions and Indian Literature” is a book through studies on Indian traditions and their share in Indian literature. The main focus is on Folk literature forms a vast corpus of legends stories fables fairy-tales religious tales and mythological tales present in oral as well as the written practice of culture language and people. In fact folk literature has been considered synonymous with oral literature. It also highlights Folk literature represents limitless literary pursuits that keep evolving progressing adapting and reorienting along with the dynamism of time and need of the people who create possess and further folklore generation after generation. Folk literature is characterized by the people it belongs to. Therefore it will not be wrong to call it people’s literature. Folk literature emerges out of people’s desires aspirations creativity and aesthetic impulse and it is closely related to people’s lives and experiences efforts to resolve the conflicts struggles to better the life emotional and intellectual journeys reason and rationality issues of existence and conservation as well as preservation of nature.