Paraja By Gopinath Mohanty.

Paraja an Introduction.

Watch summary at Student Help  Paraja is a novel of modern Indian fiction, which was originally written in Oriya in 1945 and later translated into English by Bikram K Das in 1987 tells on an epic scale, the story of a tribal patriarch and his family in the mountainous jungles of Orissa.

 The slow decline in the fortunes of this family om the quiet prosperity of a subsistence livelihood towards bondage to the moneylender is both poignantly individualized as well as symbolic of  erosion of a whole way of life within peasant communities.
 The novel 'Paraja' is all about a tribe in Koraput district of Orissa.
 It manifests the geographical details, feudal background, the economic and naterial resources and the unremarkable bond between man and nature with social customs, rituals and rites.