Folk Culture Research Centre of North East India - FCRC ARHI

About us

In an historic effort to preserve and promote tribal folk culture, publish tribal folk literature in a systematic manner and make people aware about small tribal groups,their culture,lifestyle and ensuing problems of these groups, North East Folk Culture Research Centre came into existence in 2008 with a host of programmes.
The research centre is a principal wing of AARHI – a social organization working in the field of education, child development and research oriented programmes on tribal culture all across North East India. Their range of current and future work plan include preservation through Visual Media - Audio - Video , documentary film on distinct tribal cultures, publications of tribal folk culture, organizing workshops and fellowship programmes.

Mission
Redefining Folk Culture of North East India through the medium of research, reflection and documentation.
This is an open forum to discuss the essence and vitality of global indigenous cultures with specific reference to North East India

Our work
• FCRC has therefore, to retain an archival testimony to such diverse through video and audio documentation. In addition to it, thoroughly researched publication work has been carried on by the Centre covering their ethnic culture, language and literature. The Centre’s aim is to “bring into the mind of people a comparative and integrated religious and cultural consciousness and establish a solid foundation for an actual cosmopolitan society” (part “d” of Preamble, FCRC of North-East of India)
• FCRC has audio documented different songs and hymns of the different communities of the tribes of the North Eastern States of India. It is an effort to help those communities to preserve their heritage who folk-lore exist more in the vocal than written forms.
• The video section has a rich collection of the various footage capturing the various small, but richly cultured communities of the land. For instance the “Tai-Phake” community of Assam, one of the sub clan of of the “Tai” community who are said to have been migrated from Thailand. Their different lifestyle blending with their Buddhist philosophy and their ability to withstand the onslaught of crass modernity or dominant religion like Christianity or Hinduism.
• All these audio and visual aspects have been given a research-based manifestation in the literary works produced by the Centre. The recently released published work drafts the same of the different communities like “Tai-Phake”, “Singpho”, “Sonowal-Kachari” etc.
• In addition to that a detailed book has been worked upon traditional “tribal-medicine” of different 11 tribes inhabiting in Assam. This has been done to shed light on the usability and practised medicinal forms in these tribes mostly regarded as a taboo by modern media and as propagated by the corporate-allopathic lobby. Other than that an interesting project of collecting of about 100 tribal folk tales of Assam has been carried forward.
• In some projects in the pipe-line a major work manifesting in an encyclopaedia upon the major tribes of Assam has been planned out.

Dibya Jyoti Borah is the President of North East Folk Culture Research Centre (FCRC ARHI).

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