Background
Sen, Soumen was born on October 12, 1937 in Sylhet, India. Son of Benode Behari and Suruchibala (Ray) Sen.
(The essays are written in the context of the so-called tr...)
The essays are written in the context of the so-called tribal areas of the north-eastern region of India. The base data in most cases have however been collected from Meghalaya, the Khasi-Jaintia Hills in particular, my primary research universe. However, the ethnic groups living in the mountainous terrain of India’s north-east, show a characteristic unity, despite linguistic and cultural diversities, that of being in a state of social format called ‘tribal’ facing similar problems of static life, economy and under-development. Added to this are the tensions generated in recent years when education and some waves of development reached the region and tribal self-governing states in the Indian Union came in to being. Consequently, new issues have come into the fore–the issues relating to self-assertion, retention of the age-old cultural identity, the crisis of adjustment between tradition and modernity, and above all, the tensions of a change-over from the tranquil folklife to modern hurly-burly including those of the fast moving world in the days of globalization. Consequently, there also appeared a concern with folklore, the search for a ‘lore’ of essential core, to write a new history. Search Tags :Khasi Jaintia Oral Texts Folklore and Development Antithetic NorthEast India Mentalities,The Folklife and the Socio Psychologial Issues of Development Identity Narrative, Ritual and Historical Jaintia Religion and Identity Khasi Orality Khasi-Jaintia Genre of Folklore The Nongkrem Dances of Khasi Meghalaya Hills, Dales and Groves Folk, Court, Popular Hermeneutics of Religious Practices Verrier Elwin North-East Frontier
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Sen, Soumen was born on October 12, 1937 in Sylhet, India. Son of Benode Behari and Suruchibala (Ray) Sen.
Bachelor with honors, St. Xaviers College, Calcutta, India, 1956. Master of Arts, Calcutta University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, Gauhati (India) University, 1983.
Lecturer Shillong (India) College, 1963-1985. Reader, director and head center for literature & cultural studies North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, since 1985.
(The essays are written in the context of the so-called tr...)
Member Indian Folklore Congress (vice president since 1990), Indian & International Comparative Literature Association, North-East India Council for Social Science Research (founder), International Social Association (research committee sociology of arts, sociology of religion).
Married Gouri Sengupta, March 8, 1967. Children: Rhea Ghosh, Rajeswari Sen.