Representation of the Village in Indian Fiction A Study of Select Bengali Novels in Translation

Abstract

newline community, society, people with their unique culture and tradition. Village is considered as a unit for administrative and demographic purposes. In fact the definition of Village depends on how we approach it. In other words perspective plays a vital role in understanding village. If we look at the etymology of village , we could see that the origin of the word is traced back to Latin word Villa meaning country house and then in the late 14th century as a part of Late middle English the word was first quoted and used as houses and other buildings in a group or an inhabited place larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town . So the term Village is associated with Home and its people, the community to be more precise. And with community come their tradition and rituals, their festivals and celebrations, language and other modes of expression, the economic and social condition, imbricated with caste discrimination and the way it controls their modes of expression and everyday life.