No Man’s Land
Reading Travel Accounts In Pilgrimage Sites in Shanku Maharaj’s Bigalito Karuna Jahnabi Jamuna
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14955948 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Smitasri Joy Sarma (Tezpur University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0975-2935 • E-ISSN: 0975-2935 |
| Publisher | Aesthetics Media Services (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n3.07 |
| OpenAlex | W3043671684 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
India is the land of 330 million deities, where religious establishments serve as landmarks for postal addresses, where people unite and divide on the pretext of religion, where every milestone involves religious ceremonies, where every birth, marriage or death undergoes holy rituals, or as Bengal endorses the nation's spirit as "Baro Mashe Tero Parbon" (13 festivals in 12 months). Though the nation speaks of religious diversities, India in the common psyche upholds Hinduism and its practices. In the Western literary bank, India is marked with sacred heritage that draws people to stimulate their spiritual, pursuing solace and the surreal. The legend of Shravan Kumar echoes the existing and common affair of pilgrimages in India that today proves as commercial, in fact as a lucrative sector. This paper endeavors to explore an Indian travel narrative in a pilgrim site through a close textual analysis of Khagendra Narayan Dutta Baruah's Assamese translation of Shanku Maharaj's Bigalito Karuna Jahnabi Jamuna (1962), originally written in Bengali in 1959. The text, though woven as a travelogue in a pilgrim site ventures to celebrate the humane, along with the divine. It evokes the reiterated statement of the journey as primal to the destination. The voice while capturing the ethos of India with all its nuances simultaneously dismantles and in fact challenges the conventional and romanticized vista of travelling, particularly in precarious sites. In India, treading the holy spaces despite usually accompanying itineraries can unravel into adventure as the lines blur between such accounts and otherwise
Adventure · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Bengali · Hinduism · Legend · Literature · Narrative · Pilgrim · Pilgrimage · Sociology · Totem · Anthropology · History · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Travel Writing and Literature
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |