Santhal Architecture of Terai region: A case of satar village Morang

Abstract

Modernization in housing construction in rural areas leads to changes in traditional lifestyle. This study has developed a survey of Santhal architecture in the rural areas of the traditional settlements of satar and identify changing trends and study different attribute’s role that somehow playing role in shaping santhal architecture. As indigenous peoples like santhal are diverse social and cultural groups, with ancestral connections to the land and natural resources they lived in, occupied or evacuated. Changes in community cultural and social attitudes have the greatest impact on architecture it not only diminishes architecture but also kills the social cultural practices which ultimately result to diminishes of their identity (Ismail, 2015). As a result, it appears crucial for sociocultural factors to support architectural identity. The Santal people seek to shape architecture and create their own identities through social and cultural attributes it plays an important role in identity formation. Each architectural element of Santa-House represents culture such as structure, morphology and design, and the use of raw materials determine their identity. Generally, Santhal builds a house from a local material that can be used locally instead of text craftsmanship so these reflects their identity it has to be preserved.