The Changing Face of Folk Culture : Prof. K.K. Gupta Commemoration Volume

Contents: 1. Comparative study of Bengali folk literature/Suhrid Kumar Bhowmik. 2. Santal medicine/Chittabrata Palit. 3. The Gambhira -- an expression of Bengali folk art and music/Jayasree Mukhopadhyay. 4. Tattoo : the folk art printed on female body/Abha R. Pal. 5. Traditional and indigenous medical culture in India/S. Krishnamurthi. 6. Dwindling folk art of Bengal : possibility of its revival/Barun Kr. Chakrabarty. 7. The Folk Art of Assamese manuscripts/Meghali Goswami, Ila Gupta and P. Jha. 8. Kutch folk art and crafts/Ila Ved. 9. Revisiting colonial Bengal through Baul songs/Amit Dey. 10. Folklore and oral history/Dulal Chaudhuri. 11. Social reform movement in Tamil Nadu in the twentieth century with reference to Periyar E.V.R./C. Paramarthalingam. 12. Tantric medicine and popular response in modern Bengal/Subrata Pahari. 13. North Bengal and it\'s folk people/S. Barma. 14. Searching for a methodology and an interpretative approach/Nupur Dasgupta. 15. War dance and Gajan of Bengal/Mahua Mukherjee. 16. The founding of the Asutosh Museum and the (Building of a Folk Art collection)/Rituparna Basu. 17. Legends and Folk Culture of the TIWA (LALUNG) Tribe in Assam/Bandana Baruah. 18. Social reform Movements in Kerala with particular reference to the role of Sree Narayan Guru/N. Raveendran. 19. The relevance of type and motif index in analysing folktales/Dibyajoti Majumdar. 20. Contribution of Devadasi cult in the development of Indian classical dance/Sukla Bandyopadhyay. 21. The Dhokra art of West Bengal/Rangan Kanti Jana. 22. Madariya Silsila in the perspective of folk culture of 18 and 19 century Bengal/Ananda Bhattacharya.

"It gives us immense satisfaction for being able to publish the proceedings of a seminar held in memory of late Prof. Kalyan Kumar Dasgupta on 26 May, 2003. Some invited articles were added to the proceedings to make it a handsome volume."