Kurukh Literary Society

Kurukh literary Society

Kurukh Literary Society of India (Regd.) had its birth on 14th October 2006 at Ranchi (Jharkhand) during the “1st National Conference on promotion of Kurukh Language” organized jointly by Welfare Association of Tribals of Chotanagpur (Regd.) Delhi and Tribal & Regional Language Department, Ranchi University, Ranchi.

The Society got registered at New Delhi on 10th October 2007 with the following aims: (i) To promote and conduct literary activities in Kurukh (ii) To promote the culture and literary exchanges (iii) Confer fellowship to distinguished Kurukh Writers (iv) To preserve and enrich the language by all means (v) Facilitate the spread and exchange of knowledge on Kurukh (vi) Organize or sponsor Kurukh Literary Conference, Seminar and Symposia.

Linguistic and cultural identity represents the social values that strengthen unity and cohesion of a community. Mother tongue is the prime vehicle of cultural identity and its plays an important role to develop communication skills, concept formation and creativity of the society.Society is working for the upliftment of tribal in different states of the country. Its main aims to work for reviving and preserving the inherent culture and tradition of tribal. In this direction efforts have been made to organize tribes from different states of Jharkhand, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Bihar, Assam, Delhi etc. Different stakeholders, tribal leaders, academicians, linguistics have come forward and have their keen interest to discuss upon and deliberate on the issue of preserving the tribal culture. The organization has been continuously working upon the issue of “Kurukh” as one of the important language of Dravidian family spoken by the Oraon tribes.

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