• Dr Parul Yadav

Folktales help people see, feel and understand life--both personal and cultural, from many different perspectives. Many of these stories have been passed down through generations and can offer a sort of collective wisdom. Folktales convey indicators of the prevailing ideology in a society. Thus, they are suitable sources for an inquiry into culture complex in a given social formation. The people of the agriculture-based rural society of Assam have their own life and culture that get projected through the oral tales. Though the people were illiterate, they were life oriented. Therefore, the society of such people was so vibrant that their folk literature became a medium of their life like expression and, hence, an integral part of society validating the basic cultural pattern. The present paper is an attempt to study the concept of culture, its influence on society and the function that folktales perform in validating Family Relationship and Conduct in agro rural Assamese people.

Culture, Society, Folktale, Assam, Tradition, Folklore

"Role of Assamese Folk Tales in Validating Family Relationship and Conduct", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 4, page no.765-767, April-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2104200.pdf

"Role of Assamese Folk Tales in Validating Family Relationship and Conduct", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 4, page no. pp765-767, April-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2104200.pdf