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Himalayan Folk Culture and Customs: an Exploration of Ruskin Bond's Literary Works

Author(s) Dr. Anju Parihar
Country India
Abstract Ruskin Bond is one of the eminent Indian English writers with the outstanding position in the field of Indian English writing. He is especially known as a short story writer, poet, writer of novellas and travelogues and he has written six novellas, over two hundred short stories, thirty-five books for children, four volumes of autobiography, about four hundred newspaper articles, five collection of essays, four poetry collections and so on. He has not only contributed in the development of English literature in India but also he has won Sahitya Akademi Award and Padma Bhushan Award. It is evident that his literary works, highlight the lifestyles of the Himalayan region, festivals, its ravishing peaks, rivers, gorges, ravines, lakes & shrines that his name mainly famous for showing himalayan folk culture, rituals and its customs.
He was grew up in the foothill of Himalayas, Dehradun; so his most literary works are influenced by the human life in the hill stations at the foothills of the Himalayas. His first semi-autobiographical novel, The Room on the Roof, partly based on his childhood experiences at Dehradun, in his small rented room on the roof, and his friends and reflect his Anglo-Indian experiences and the changing political, social and cultural aspects of India, having been through colonial, postcolonial and post-independence phases of India. Most of his stories always visualise the sights, sounds and flavours of garhwal himalaya around Dehradun and the Mussoorie Hills, where he has spent all his adult life.
This research paper is an attempt to explore the himalayan folk culture, rituals, social customs, religious deities and visual description of green and snow capped mountains in his literary works.
Keywords Indianness, Rituals, Festivals, Magnificence
Published In Volume 7, Issue 1, January-February 2026
Published On 2026-02-19
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