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Adim Purakha
This is a Maithili translation of Oriya Novel " Dadi Budha" by Gopinath Mohanty. This work has been translated into Maithili by Binod Bihari Verma and published by Sahitya Akademi ,New Delhi .
The novel deals with the decaying culture of adivasis . It tells the moving story of the disintegration of a tribal community under the impact of modern civilisation .Symbolically,an old,dried date-palm tree,embolises the eternal ancestor,a silent witness to the joys and sorrows of the tribal folk.It stands for the cultural heritage of the tribal people manifest in their rituals and customs.
The novel shows erosion of the traditional adivasi values due to effects of modernization.
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