Which India Survives Translation? Narrative Homogenisation Across Indian Oral Traditions in LLMs

Large language models (LLMs) are trained predominantly on English-language internet text that over-represents certain cultural narratives, raising concerns that models flatten the diversity of non-Western storytelling traditions into a single homogenized archetype. We present a pilot computational study examining this across three maximally distinct Indian regional oral and literary traditions: the Rajasthani Pabuji epic, classical Tamil Sangam poetry, and Bengali folk tales. We collected authentic reference corpora for each tradition (11, 21, and 10 passages respectively) and prompted two LLMs (Claude Sonnet and Gemini) with 54 generation requests spanning three prompt types per traditio...

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