A Cultural Study of Malo Community in the Novel a River Called Titash

Tarik Anowar

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i03.3806

A Cultural Study of Malo Community in the Novel a River Called Titash

Author(s)	Tarik Anowar
Country	India
Abstract	Culture designates the shared social behaviour of a community that encompasses social habits, language, belief, food, cloths, music, arts and crafts that shape their identity. Cultural materialism is the anthropological perspective that undertakes to incorporate the idea of the human societies with its rich fund of cultural heritage and the impact of the material world upon it. Among the unceasing list of river-centered narratives from Bengal, A River Called Titash is a remarkable novel that brings forth the idea of human civilization. The rivers such as the Rhine, the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Indus and the Nile fostered numerous civilizations on their banks and provided livelihood to multiple communities of the world. Similarly, a community with its rich cultural legacy also evolved along the banks of river Titash. As a member of the Malo fishing community, Adwaita Mallabarman has deftly sketched the cultural vista of the society through his keen insight. The novel exquisitely deals with the multifarious cultural lifestyle like folk-language, folk-songs, festivals, religious stories and their livelihood in minute detail. Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of carnival has been used in the context of festivals of the rural people of Bengal. In addition to it, the novel also depicts grinding poverty and the survival of the Malo people. The present research paper focuses on Adwaita Mallabarman’s novel A River Called Titash to examine the cultural identity of the Malo community who have been segregated from the mainstream Bengali society since ages on account of their lower caste identity. The paper further highlights as to how the cultural identity of a Bengali marginalized community is gradually dismantled under the domination of so-called Bhadralok civilized society on the bank of the river Titash.
Keywords	A River Called Titash, Malo community, Society, Culture, Identity, Folklore, Carnival.
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 3, May-June 2023
Published On	2023-06-17
Cite This	A Cultural Study of Malo Community in the Novel a River Called Titash - Tarik Anowar - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 3, May-June 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i03.3806
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i03.3806
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gsct35

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