Influence of Tribal Culture on the Culture of Bengali/ বাঙালি সংস্কৃতিতে আদিবাসী সংস্কৃতির প্রভাব

Abstract

Humans are social beings. Without social life, human existence is tough to sustain. And the collective entity of social life is called culture. It means the elegant mentality of any human or any nation to develop the multiple qualities of its culture. Multiplicity here means people’s education, religion, art, as well as dance, music, cooking, clothing, literature, faith, festivals, rituals etc. In a word, culture is human’s national identity. It is not clear at which moment in history the Indian culture is started; it can be safely said that the tribal culture is very ancient. And the modern buildings of Aryan civilization built on the foundation of tribal culture. So naturally many materials of tribal culture are incorporated in this building. Like Bengali Puja-parbans, festivals-ceremonies, rituals, customs, religion-arts are direct signs of it. A longtime coexistence with each other has resulted in an exchange of ideas as well as an exchange of culture. Thus the field of giving and influence of tribal culture on the Bengali culture is also very old.