• VISHNUPRIYA CV

The present paper entitled Tracing Roots is an attempt to trace out how the concept of myth is used to determine the life and belief system of adivasi community in Wayanad which includes both adiyars and paniyars as reflected in KJ Baby’s famous play Nadugaddika. The paper endeavors to examine the play in its mythical background to highlight how it contributed to both the physical and the psychological suppression of the tribe. The major objective of the study includes a scrutiny of each of such stories and songs to examine their validity, affinity towards other cultures and its drastic effects on the lives of tribal people. It also looks forward to throw light on how the dominant group used such beliefs as a tool of hegemony and how consequently it led to a tendency of repression among the tribals. On the whole this study can be described as an effort to portray the evolution of spiritual suppression that lies latent among these tribes.

Myth, suppression, identity, spiritual enslavement, Adiyas and Paniyas

"Tracing Roots: Role of Myth in constructing Dalit Identity with regard to the Play From the Nether (Nadugaddika) ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.550-555, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908080.pdf

"Tracing Roots: Role of Myth in constructing Dalit Identity with regard to the Play From the Nether (Nadugaddika) ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp550-555, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908080.pdf