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@article{197050,
        author = {Barnita Majumder and Dr. Ashoke Kumar},
        title = {An Analytical study on Socio-Cultural Representation in the Translated Tales of North-East India},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {11},
        pages = {6783-6788},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=197050},
        abstract = {North-East India is one of the most culturally diverse regions of India, marked by multilingual communities, rich oral traditions, ecological intimacy, ritual systems, and strong patterns of collective memory. Literary collections such as Earth Songs: Stories from North-East India and The Oxford Anthology of Writings from North-East India indicate the growing visibility of the region’s translated narrative traditions in literary and academic discourse. At the same time, modern translation studies has established that translation is not merely a transfer of words from one language to another, but a process of cultural mediation that shapes how texts travel and how cultures are represented.
The present paper examines how translated tales from North-East India represent socio-cultural life and how translation reconfigures that representation for wider readerships. The study adopts a qualitative, exploratory, and interpretative methodology based on close reading, thematic analysis, and culture-oriented translation criticism. It argues that the translated tales of North-East India are not only literary texts but also cultural documents that preserve community values, ritual consciousness, ecological relations, gendered roles, and inherited memory. At the same time, the paper demonstrates that translation both preserves and transforms these meanings. While translation enables broader literary visibility and cross-cultural access, it may also soften oral texture, local symbolism, and community-specific resonance. The study concludes that translated tales of North-East India are significant literary sites through which regional culture becomes visible, mobile, and discussable in English literary discourse.},
        keywords = {North-East India, translation, socio-culture, tales, folklore, oral tradition, cultural identity, literary visibility},
        month = {April},
        }