Folktales from Northern India

The first single volume collection of classic Hindi folktales by translators William Crooke and Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube.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 Indiaits 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of the tales were published in British ethnographic journals a number of the manuscripts in Chaube''s handwriting were unpublished; others existed only as old microfilm in a New Delhi library.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.