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Autore |
Naithani Sadhana |
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Titolo |
In quest of Indian folktales : Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke / / Sadhana Naithani |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2006 |
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©2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 328 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Tales - India |
Folklore - India |
Folklorists - India |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-317) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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"[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 In 1996, Sadhana Naithani discovered this unpublished collection in the archive of the Folklore Society |
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