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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457527803321

Autore

Naithani Sadhana

Titolo

In quest of Indian folktales [[electronic resource] ] : Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke / / Sadhana Naithani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-253-11202-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

398.2/0954

Soggetti

Tales - India

Folklore - India

Folklorists - India

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-317) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

""[A] rare piece of scholarly detective work."" -- Margaret                Mills, Ohio State UniversityIn 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 In 1996, Sadhana Naithani                discovered this unpublished collection in the archive of the Folkl