Representation of Cultural Diversity in India: Reading A.K. Ramanujan’s Folktales from India

Abstract

This study establishes the continuing power, diversity and vitality of the Indian folklore as shown in a few of A. K Ramanujan’s stories from the collection entitled Folktales of India. The stories comprise an assortment of folktales from numerous Indian languages. Additionally, they are an amazing cultural relic representing oral traditions from several Indian languages and tribes. These stories can be considered as the symbol of unity in diversity prevailed in India. Folktales that have been chosen for this collection and told in a variety of languages clearly allude to the social and cultural structures of Indian culture. Our understanding of culture and how it functions in human communities may be improved by studying folk culture and oral tradition. It helps in understanding human life and the need of the folktales in a culturally constituted world.  Thus, the current paper entitled Representation of Indian Diversity: Reading A.K. Ramanujan’s Folktales from India” discusses the multicultural aspects of Indian society.