International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology Vol. 29, No. 05, (2020), pp.13704-13707 Role of Literature in Maintaining Social Harmony of North East India (Special Reference to Assam) Porinita Bori1 Alakananda Saikia2 1 Research Scholar, Dept. Of Assamese, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam,India 2 Research Scholar, Dept. Of Assamese, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam,India 1 Email.:
[email protected] Abstract Assam is a land of Diversity. There are divergent races, tribes, ethnic, cultural, lingual, religious and political groups. The geography of Assam is very wonderful surroundings of hills, historical places, Islands, Wildlife parks, greenery, cultivators rivers etc. gives a scent of nature. So, having this diversity it has been facing various problems and challenges in maintaining unity and social harmony in Assam. As the topic prevails, society is directly related to literarcy part. As to concerned this, literature been originated from society, what has been written in the novel, poetry, drama etc. The theme of literary pieces deals with society dominating issues which had been happened earlier, and still going on like political, religious truth. The literature works are taking place more on the relevant themes due its growth in that part. In the paper an attempt has been made to trace out the key role of literature for maintaining social harmony in Assam. Key words :- Social Harmony, Society, Unity etc. Introduction : Maintaining of social harmony has emerged as one of the most important subject of concern in the present day of diverse society. Today's society can be refers as diverse society where units have been divided into sub units and it divided into small portions.