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the tales were published in British ethnographic journals, a number of the manuscripts, in Chaube''s handwriting, were unpublished; others existed only as old microfilm in a New Delhi library.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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube, Sadhana Naithani, William Crooke
• Con la collaborazione di: William Crooke (Editore), Naithani Sadhana (Editore), Sadhana Naithani (Editore)
• Editore: Abc Clio Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 08.10.2002
• Categoria: Saggistica > Enciclopedie, opere di consultazione > Enciclopedie, lessici; Narrativa > Antologie miste; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali
• EAN: 9781576076989
• ISBN: 978-1-57607-698-9
• Numero di pagine: 476
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 7 a 17 anni
• Serie: Classic Folk and Fairy Tales; Classic Folk and Fairy Tales; ABC-Clio Classic Folk and Fair
• Categorie: Cats, death, Virtue, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Gifts, Myth & legend told as fiction, demons, Anthologies: general, luck, Anthologies (non-poetry), Betrayal, Famine, Lying, advice, Reincarnation, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Names, Mourning, polygamy, Akbar, honesty, Poisoning, adultery, banya, Jewels and Jewelry