Description
The present teatise is the outcome of intensive field investigation among the Mal Paharia, who is settled within the bourndary of Damin-i-koh of Santal Pragana, Jharkhand. The life and culture of of the Mal Paharia are nourished under the lap of nature where their strong belief system plays a key role. The concept of globalization means connectivity and increasing interdependence of world society into a single world. With the advent of new world economy which is supported by advanced technology, competitions, flow of capital/money etc. Along with fast changing social values, the socio-cultural life as well as traditional knowledge bank of the Mal Paharia-a scheduled tribal group are being affected and ultimately these hilly terrain tribal people will be in soup in the new emerging competitive social-cultural environment which is manifested in their materialistic life through consumerism and individualism. NGO\’s in this area play a very active role for sustainable development among the studies group. The global influence on the local culture has penetrated in their behaviour pattern and as a result their rich knowledge bank for ailment is eroding fast and much has been already lost with tenants of modernization and globalization where the rapid spread of foreign technology with money introduced from outside.
