In quest of Indian folktales : Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke / / Sadhana Naithani
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xi, 328 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 398.2/0954 |
| Soggetto topico: | Tales - India |
| Folklore - India | |
| Folklorists - India | |
| 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 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 In 1996, Sadhana Naithani discovered this unpublished collection in the archive of the Folklore Society |
| Titolo autorizzato: | In quest of Indian folktales |
| ISBN: | 0-253-11202-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828657003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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