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Bodding’s Santal Folk Tales is the only compreheisive repository of Santal folklore. Such tales and traditions have lived on the lips and in the hearts of the Santals for centuries. Undoubtedly these are genuine folk tales which have been noted down by a Santal whose horizon was limited to Santal people, their areas and traditions. It is not difficult to trace Aryan influence on these stories and sometimes we can point to parallel tales in the ...
More than for her size, culture diversity and complexity and social and ethnic heterogeneity, India stands apart from the rest of the countries of the world for its vibrant democracy. For more than four decades, it has functioned as an open and competitive polity. Encyclopaedia of India and Her States is an outstanding study in ten volumes of India, its land, its people, the various states--their history, administration government, politics and laws. The study ...