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| Article Name : | | | SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF FOLKS IN TAMILNADU AS GLEANED FROM BALLADAS | | Author Name : | | | P. Jeyabalakrishnan | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-4675 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Tradition is the fountain from which history of mankind is tapped. People's history often survives in its folk literature and traditions. Among the folk compositions folk ballads which are normally in poetical form which narrate popular themes of intellectual and emotional culture of the common people. Historical ballads serve as an unique, dependable as well as corroborative source for the reconstruction of history of every nation. They are both informative and instructive narrations which shed immense light on the political, economic, social and cultural life of the people. They are the expressions of the common people to record their sentiments towards heroism and rouse righteous indignation against oppression and tyranny. | | Keywords : | | |
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