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Folktales from Northern India

Folktales from Northern India

Naithani, Sadhana
Crooke, William
Chaube, Pandit Ram Gharib

Hardcover

Series: Classic Folk and Fairy Tales

General ReferenceMythology & FolkloreGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1576076989
ISBN13: 9781576076989
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: Oct 8 2002
Pages: 476
Weight: 2.13
Height: 1.26 Width: 6.84 Depth: 10.86
Language: English

The first single volume collection of classic Hindi folktales by translators William Crooke and Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube.

In 1891, at a time when the study of India was primarily based on ancient texts, coins, and material remains, William Crooke dared to focus on living India--its everyday culture, age-old customs, and fictional narratives. With Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube, he recorded and published, over a period of six years, a remarkable collection of folktales from northern India.

The tales reflect the tapestry of social and personal lives of this region, the epicenter of a revolt against British rule in 1857. Although many of the tales were published in British ethnographic journals, a number of the manuscripts, in Chaube's handwriting, were unpublished; others existed only as old microfilm in a New Delhi library. Never before have they appeared as a single volume or been available in any one library or archive.

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