Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
Year : 2013, Volume : 3, Issue : 1
First page : ( 12) Last page : ( 23)
Print ISSN : 0000-0000. Online ISSN : 2249-7315.

Reclaiming dissident collectivities/political community through the matrix of gambhira, An eastern Indian folk form

Alam Mursed*, Chakraborty Dhritiman**, Dr. Purakayastha Anindya Sekhar***

*Assistant Professor, Gour College, Malda, West Bengal.

**Research Scholar, Centre for the Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.

***Assistant Professor, S K B University, Purulia, West Bengal.

Abstract

Folk forms are generally viewed as anachronistic entities in the market driven colossus of cultural uniformity and annihilation of such cultural fossils are legitimised in the name of advancement. But the claims of globalization and cultural hegemony are not uncontested as the fierce dissensus between the civilized/globalised society and the subaltern political society are gaining larger momentum. Can folk forms be defossilised to unpack their ontological and socio political trajectories so that a new grammar of dissent and ingenious forms of neo-subjectivities can be resuscitated? Folk forms derive their sustenance through community bondings and solidarity formations and such integral tropes are gradually losing their currency under the corrosive effect of the market. So a critical folk studies may reclaim the matrix of a renewed counter hegemony of dissidence in this time of capital conformism.

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