(Ebook) Folktales from Northern India (Classic Folk and Fairytales) by William Crooke, Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube, Sadhana Naithani ISBN 9781576076989, 1576076989

(Ebook) Folktales from Northern India (Classic Folk and Fairytales) by William Crooke, Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube, Sadhana Naithani ISBN 9781576076989, 1576076989

In 1891, at a time when the study of India was primarily based on ancient texts, coins, and material remains, William Crooke dared to focus on living India?€”its everyday culture, age-old customs, and fictional narratives. With Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube, he recorded and published, over a period of six years, a remarkable collection of folktales from northern India.The tales reflect the tapestry of social and personal lives of this region, the epicenter of a revolt against British rule in 1857. Although many of the tales were published in British ethnographic journals, a number of the manuscripts, in Chaube's handwriting, were unpublished; others existed only as old microfilm in a New Delhi library. Never before have they appeared as a single volume or been available in any one library or archive.