• Dr Jintu Borah

Abstract Taboos are social prohibitions on not doing something. Such taboos are mentioned in some original English novels published from the NE region. In the research article taboos are discussed from four novels of Easterine Kire's 'A Naga Village Remembered' (2003), 'Bitter Wormwood' (2011), 'Life on Hold' (2011), A Terrible Matriachy (2007), L.W. Bapu's Khaduma's Curse (2012) and Mitra Phuka's 'The Collector's Wife' (2005). In Easterine Kire's 'Life on Hold' we find one taboo; here marriage between bride and bridegroom of two villages is banned which is explicitly termed in the novel as a taboo. In Easterine Kire's 'Bitter Wormwood' also we find a taboo about' genna day'. It is a day when nobody works in the field. In Easterine Kire's, 'A Terrible Matriarchy' also we find about taboos. It is about throwing food. Food throwing is a taboo. In L.W. Bapu's Khaduma's Curse also we find one taboo. In the novel also we find a taboo. Woman or girl going to male's meeting is a taboo. In Easterine Kire's 'A Naga Village Remembered' also we find such taboo. Even the husband does not disclose to his wife about the discussion of a male's meeting. There is another explicit taboo in the novel. People do not mourn a lashu death. In Mitra Phuka's 'The Collector's Wife' we do not find the word taboo. But we find such incidents similar to a taboo. We have seen that near the bride on the day of marriage a barren woman is prohibited to go. This is an implicit taboo

Keywords- Taboo, genna day, lashu death, explicit taboo, implicit taboo.

"Taboos in the Selected English Novels of NE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no.g576-g580, May-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305684.pdf

"Taboos in the Selected English Novels of NE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no. ppg576-g580, May-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305684.pdf