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Folk tales from India.
Bringing together nearly one hundred tales translated from fourteen languages, Folktales of India opens the vast narrative world of Indian folklore to readers of English. Beck includes oral tales collected from tribal areas, peasant groups, urban areas, and remote villages in north and south India, and the distinctive boundary regions of Kashmir, Assam, and Manipur. The tales in this collection emphasize universal human characteristics—truthfulness, modesty, loyalty, courage, generosity, and honesty. Each story is meant to be savored individually with special attention given to the great range of motifs presented and the many distinct narrative styles used. Folktales of India offers a superb anthology of India's bountiful narrative tradition. "This collection does an excellent job of representing India. . . . It is the type of book that can be enjoyed by all readers who love a well-told tale as well as by scholars of traditional narrative and scholars of India in general."—Hugh M. Flick, Jr., Asian Folklore Studies "The stories collected here are representative, rich in structural subtlety, and endowed with fresh earthy humor."—Kunal Chakraborti, Contributions to Indian Sociology
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the tales were published in British ethnographic journals, a number of the manuscripts, in Chaube's handwriting, were unpublished; others existed only as old microfilm in a New Delhi library.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.
A.K. Ramanujan's outstanding selection is an indispensable guide to the richness and vitality of India's ageless oral folklore tradition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1890 Edition.
This collection brings to you a classic mixture of humorous, informative and interesting stories from the ancient times of southern India. Enjoy a ride on The Heavenly Elephant , meet The Man in the Bush , find out How the Dwarf Outwitted the Giant an
Adi Shankara Adventures of Agad Dutta Ayyappan Basaweshwara Ellora Caves: The Glory of the Rashtrakootas Kannagi Karttikeya Kesari the Flying Thief Krishnadeva Raya Madhvacharya Raja Raja Chola Raman Of Tenali Raman The Matchless Wit Ramana Maharshi Ramanuja Shalivahana Subramania Bharati Swami Chinmayananda Tales Of Maryada Rama The Celestial Necklace The Fool's Disciples The Magic Grove The Prince and the Magician The Tiger And The Woodpecker Tipu Sultan