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In quest of Indian folktales : Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke / Sadhana Naithani.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Naithani, Sadhana.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tales--India.
- Tales.
- Folklore--India.
- Folklore.
- Folklorists--India.
- Folklorists.
- Chaube, Pandit Ram Gharib.
- Crooke, William, 1848-1923.
- Crooke, William.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 328 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "[A] rare piece of scholarly detective work."--Margaret Mills, Ohio State University In Quest of Indian Folktales publishes for the first time a collection of northern Indian folktales from the late 19th century. Reputedly the work of William Crooke, a well-known folklorist and British colonial official, the tales were actually collected, selected, and translated by a certain Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube. In 1996, Sadhana Naithani discovered this unpublished collection in the archive of the Folklore Society
- Contents:
- Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke
- The golden manuscripts
- Crooke, Chaube, and colonial folkloristics, 1868-1914
- Post-colonial conclusions
- Colors of life : tales 1 to 87
- So wise some women are : tales 88 to 103
- Magical mind : tales 104 to 125
- Corrective measures : tales 126 to 158.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-317) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-253-11202-8
- OCLC:
- 213331342
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