JOURNEY INTO SELFHOOD: A STUDY INTO THE LITERATURE OF CHAR AREAS OF THE RIVER BRAHMAPUTRA

Man being a part of Nature’s ontological independence gains consciousness to form the sense of primary identity from the natural surroundings. The consciousness is not only individual, but it is culturally constructed. To understand a culturally phenomenological entity the prime factor to delve upon is the natural surroundings. The study covers the concept of association of the psyche people living on the bank of the Brahmaputra with the entity of the river. The Brahmaputra houses river islands, islets and large sandbank areas. Moreover, another variety of land areas is found to have existed since long. Marked by human habitation, the defining feature of these areas is the ephemera, the physical vulnerability. The physical vulnerability of the char areas constructs the livelihood of the people living there with an alertness of destruction and shifting. The psyche of people absorbs the issue of identity within flux.