LEADER 02546nam 22005894a 450 001 9910784580603321 005 20230818214902.0 010 $a0-253-11202-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000362394 035 $a(EBL)283664 035 $a(OCoLC)213331342 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000177733 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11180002 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177733 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10219116 035 $a(PQKB)10499744 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC283664 035 $a(OCoLC)86068949 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16727 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL283664 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10158078 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000362394 100 $a20050713h20062006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIn quest of Indian folktales $ePandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke /$fSadhana Naithani 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$d2006 210 4$aŠ2006 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 328 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-253-34544-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [315]-317) and indexes. 327 $aPandit 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. 330 $a"[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 In 1996, Sadhana Naithani discovered this unpublished collection in the archive of the Folklore Society 606 $aTales$zIndia 606 $aFolklore$zIndia 606 $aFolklorists$zIndia 615 0$aTales 615 0$aFolklore 615 0$aFolklorists 676 $a398.2/0954 700 $aNaithani$b Sadhana$01484504 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784580603321 996 $aIn quest of Indian folktales$93740120 997 $aUNINA