Lal Behari Day
In my Peasant Life in Bengal I make the peasant boy Govinda spend some hours every evening in listening to stories told by an old woman, who was called Sambhu's mother, and who was the best story-teller in the village. On reading that passage, captain R.C. Temple, of the Bengal Staff Corps, son of the distinguished Indian administrator Sir Richard temple, wrote to me to say how interesting it would be to get a collection of those unwritten stories which old women ...