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In Quest of Indian Folktales publishers for the first time collection of northern Indian folktales from the late nineteenth 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 In 1996, Sadhana National discovered this unpublished collection in the archive of the Folklore Society, London. Since then, She has uncovered ...
Collectors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries unearthed a wealth of stories from around the world and published them in English translations for the delight of general readers, young and old. Most of these anthologies have been long out of print. The ABC-CLIO classic Folk and Fairy Tales series brings back to life these key anthologies of traditional tales from the golden age of folkfore discovery. Each volume provides a freshly typeset but otherwise ...