The Talking Thrush and Other Tales From India (Esprios Classics)

William Crooke CIE FBA (6 August 1848 - 25 October 1923) was a British orientalist and a key figure in the study and documentation of Anglo-Indian folklore. He was born in County Cork Ireland and was educated at Erasmus Smith's Tipperary Grammar School and Trinity College Dublin. Crooke joined the Indian Civil Service. While an administrator in India he found abundant material for his researches in the ancient civilizations of the country. He found ample time to write much on the people of India their religions beliefs and customs. He was also an accomplished hunter. He returned to England and in 1910 he was chosen to be the president of the Anthropological Section of the British Association.