Folktales from Northern India

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the tales were published in British ethnographic journals, a number of the manuscripts, in Chaube''s handwriting, were unpublished; others existed only as old microfilm in a New Delhi library.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.>

Product details

• Authors: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube, William Crooke, Sadhana Naithani
• Assisted by: William Crooke (Editor), Sadhana Naithani (Editor)
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.2002
• EAN: 9781576076989
• ISBN: 978-1-57607-698-9
• No. of pages: 476
• Series: Classic Folk and Fairy Tales; Classic Folk and Fairy Tales; ABC-Clio Classic Folk and Fair
• Subjects: Fiction > Mixed anthologies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)