• Anku Nani
• Dr. Shabih Abbas Jafri

Mamang Dai is one of the most prolific fiction writers of North East India writing in English. She is a native of Arunachal Pradesh, belongs to a tribe called Adi. She is quite well-known among the world literary figures with lots of awards and accolades in her kitty. For the purpose of this paper, Mamang Dai’s The Legends of Pensam will be taken up for study and analysis. This paper will attempt to find out how the writer has projected the socio-cultural aspects of her state and community through her novel. It will also investigate various folklore facets in their fictional work, especially in the usage of folktales, myths, legends, beliefs, rituals and customs which have been embedded in Adi society through oral traditions long before any kind of written records were available.

Keywords: Folklore, socio-cultural aspects, folktales, beliefs, customs, oral traditions

"Exploring Folklore Elements in Mamang Dai's The Legends of Pensam", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no.j34-j36, May-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305952.pdf

"Exploring Folklore Elements in Mamang Dai's The Legends of Pensam", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no. ppj34-j36, May-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305952.pdf