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Abstract Due to geographical reasons, the village community of Sundarbans has long maintained its own rural character as it is almost cut off from the contact of urban civilization and culture. Sociologically, the village society of Sundarbans has actually become a self-centred village society. Thus, a self-centred village community is actually the home of folk culture. The virginity of the subject related to culture is preserved as long as each community is cut off from the dazzling spectacle of urban culture or retains its rural character. Binay Ghosh's book - Banglar Loksanskritir Samajtattwa says, "Until the social and geographical separation of people in the age of mechanized transport, the natural form of culture was almost untainted everywhere, even in the self-centred village society of our country." Folk culture may be narrow in scope, but its vitality can never be underestimated. The reason is that the folk culture emerges from the direct human relationship, spiritual connection and deep sincerity of all members of each community group. A few events of the social life, such as family formation through marriage, birth, and death - even considering just these three events, a distinct social history emerges from village life in the Indian Sundarbans. Be it the minimum age of marriage, the idea of birth control, and the method of childbirth or cremation of a person, a different history of backwardness emerges in the marginal public life of the Indian Sundarbans. In the present article, the unique social history centred on birth-death-marriage in the marginal public life of the post-independence Indian Sundarbans is reviewed from a sociological perspective.