Old Deccan Days or Hindoo Fairy Legends PDF
Edited by Narayan Kirin Narayan
Part of the Classic Folk and Fairy Tales series
Description
A long-lost collection of Indian fairy tales transcribed by the daughter of the British governor of Bombay.
In the cold months of 1865, young Mary Frere and her father, Bartle Frere, British governor of Bombay, set out in a caravan across the Deccan province of south central India. During their journey Mary transcribed 24 popular Hindu folktales told to her by her nursemaid. That collection of tales, which she published as Old Deccan Days, not only became the first Indian folklore collection in English, it established a new genre of writing about British India.
These marvelously imaginative tales from the Indian oral tradition are peopled with beautiful, smart, outspoken women; restless, adventuresome men; gods who take on human form; and animals who know the secrets of human destinies. Evil magicians cast spells on humans, changing them to plants, and demonic, ogre-like Rakshases savor human flesh.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:292 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)
- Publication Date:17/12/2002
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- ISBN:9781576076811
Information
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:292 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)
- Publication Date:17/12/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9781576076811
