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Old Deccan Days, Or, Hindoo Fairy Legends

Old Deccan Days, Or, Hindoo Fairy Legends

Narayan, Kirin

Hardcover

Series: Classic Folk and Fairy Tales

General ReferenceMythology & FolkloreGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1576076806
ISBN13: 9781576076804
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: Dec 17 2002
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.59
Height: 1.06 Width: 7.38 Depth: 10.14
Language: English

A long-lost collection of Indian fairy tales transcribed by the daughter of the British governor of Bombay.

In the cold months of 1865, young Mary Frere and her father, Bartle Frere, British governor of Bombay, set out in a caravan across the Deccan province of south central India. During their journey Mary transcribed 24 popular Hindu folktales told to her by her nursemaid. That collection of tales, which she published as Old Deccan Days, not only became the first Indian folklore collection in English, it established a new genre of writing about British India.

These marvelously imaginative tales from the Indian oral tradition are peopled with beautiful, smart, outspoken women; restless, adventuresome men; gods who take on human form; and animals who know the secrets of human destinies. Evil magicians cast spells on humans, changing them to plants, and demonic, ogre-like Rakshases savor human flesh.

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