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and performances are used in various cinemas, and some famous Bengali musical band also composed music on Baul style, and some professional Baul artists
are also part of these bands.
• To publish various types of booklets, magazine and research papers on Gajan,
prepare plan programmes to develop this culture, arrange assistance to poor distressed people and organise Gajan Utsav at different places of this area which
can improve financial status of artists.
• Organise workshop on Gajan songs to improve co-operation and rapport among
the artists and groups and training programme to new artists from mainly armature groups and also write songs on agriculture, health issue, environment, education, science and some policies taken by government like Kanyashree, Swachh
Bharat, Polio tikakaran, family planning and more to increase awareness towards
rural people to restore Gajan as a branch of folk culture.
• In present time, globalisation has a negative impact on traditional indigenous culture of rural area. As a result, the globalization process poses a challenge as well
to the ethnic culture contained within each nation. It frequently invades and transforms the forms of indigenous culture which were established by ethnic groups
and nations. When successful, the cultural contact of internationalization promotes
mutual understanding among discrete nation-states and ethnic groups, and while
certain transformations in each culture might coincidentally result, the process of
internationalization itself is possible without such transformations. The process of
globalization, however, tends to be incompatible with the maintenance of indigenous cultures. This side of the globalization process might be best expressed as a
“stateless condition.” Stateless culture means the process whereby cultures are
mixed on a global scale. Many movements have risen in the attempt to resist globalization, aiming for the protection of traditional culture among minorities, the
maintenance of local ethnic languages and the revitalization of traditional cultural
forms, so to restore the core cultural festival like Gajan awareness and economic
support for government and higher class of the society is very important.
11.13 Conclusion
In conclusion we can say that festival of Gajan means the liberation of subaltern
population and woman, the main two marginalized group of my study and the politics of keeping the women marginalized can be understood from the eventual marginalization of the worship of the earth or female Goddess, and her place was
eventually taken up by Dharma raj or Lord the most masculine God. During my
survey I came to understand that liberation of women is only a myth, because all
sympathy and feelings with the pain and womanhood sadly end with the festival,
and discrimination, patriarchy system and torturing on women continue throughout
the year and most importantly present status of this cultural heritage decreasing day
by day for various reasons. Firstly during British Raj, various dangerous rituals like
Marakhela were banned, and afterward urban-educated people show less interest in
this cultural heritage, for these artists, lyric writers of Gajan songs are slowly
11 Gajan: A Cultural Heritage of the Marginalized People in Kulpi CD Block, West…
and performances are used in various cinemas, and some famous Bengali musical band also composed music on Baul style, and some professional Baul artists
are also part of these bands.
• To publish various types of booklets, magazine and research papers on Gajan,
prepare plan programmes to develop this culture, arrange assistance to poor distressed people and organise Gajan Utsav at different places of this area which
can improve financial status of artists.
• Organise workshop on Gajan songs to improve co-operation and rapport among
the artists and groups and training programme to new artists from mainly armature groups and also write songs on agriculture, health issue, environment, education, science and some policies taken by government like Kanyashree, Swachh
Bharat, Polio tikakaran, family planning and more to increase awareness towards
rural people to restore Gajan as a branch of folk culture.
• In present time, globalisation has a negative impact on traditional indigenous culture of rural area. As a result, the globalization process poses a challenge as well
to the ethnic culture contained within each nation. It frequently invades and transforms the forms of indigenous culture which were established by ethnic groups
and nations. When successful, the cultural contact of internationalization promotes
mutual understanding among discrete nation-states and ethnic groups, and while
certain transformations in each culture might coincidentally result, the process of
internationalization itself is possible without such transformations. The process of
globalization, however, tends to be incompatible with the maintenance of indigenous cultures. This side of the globalization process might be best expressed as a
“stateless condition.” Stateless culture means the process whereby cultures are
mixed on a global scale. Many movements have risen in the attempt to resist globalization, aiming for the protection of traditional culture among minorities, the
maintenance of local ethnic languages and the revitalization of traditional cultural
forms, so to restore the core cultural festival like Gajan awareness and economic
support for government and higher class of the society is very important.
11.13 Conclusion
In conclusion we can say that festival of Gajan means the liberation of subaltern
population and woman, the main two marginalized group of my study and the politics of keeping the women marginalized can be understood from the eventual marginalization of the worship of the earth or female Goddess, and her place was
eventually taken up by Dharma raj or Lord the most masculine God. During my
survey I came to understand that liberation of women is only a myth, because all
sympathy and feelings with the pain and womanhood sadly end with the festival,
and discrimination, patriarchy system and torturing on women continue throughout
the year and most importantly present status of this cultural heritage decreasing day
by day for various reasons. Firstly during British Raj, various dangerous rituals like
Marakhela were banned, and afterward urban-educated people show less interest in
this cultural heritage, for these artists, lyric writers of Gajan songs are slowly
11 Gajan: A Cultural Heritage of the Marginalized People in Kulpi CD Block, West…