.... 46). However, new doctrines emerged in an attempt to reinforce traditionalism or endure a sense of nostalgia by using specific traditional elements in the structure of contemporary form, in an approach that contradicts the pro-modernist one in its cultural propositions that oppose everything reviving...

... with comparatively isolated habitation in the hilly and forest areas in different parts of the country (Munda, 2002). The Khasis have a matrilineal and matrilocal society, meaning their descent is traced through the mother as children take the mother's surname. The maternal uncles traditionally play a major role...