具体描述
"In Quest of Indian Folktales" publishes for the first time a collection of northern Indian folktales from the late 19th 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 In 1996, Sadhana Naithani discovered this unpublished collection in the archive of the Folklore Society, London. Since then, she has uncovered the identity of the mysterious Chaube and the details of his collaboration with the famous folklorist. In an extensive four-chapter introduction, Naithani describes Chaube's relationship to Crooke and the essential role he played in Crooke's work, as both a native informant and a trained scholar. By unearthing the fragmented story of Chaube's life, Naithani gives voice to a new identity of an Indian folklore scholar in colonial India. The publication of these tales and the discovery of Chaube's role in their collection reveal the complexity of the colonial intellectual world and problematize our own views of folklore in a postcolonial world.
作者简介
Sadhana Naithani is a professor at the Centre of German Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
目录信息
Acknowledgments
Part I. The Quest
1. Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke
2. The Golden Manuscripts
3. Crooke, Chaube, and Colonial Folkloristics, 1868–1914
4. Post-colonial Conclusions
Part II. Tales from the Manuscripts of Chaube and Crooke
Colors of Life: Tales 1 to 87
So Wise Some Women Are: Tales 88 to 103
Magical Mind: Tales 104 to 125
Corrective Measures: Tales 126 to 158
Appendix: Aarne-Thompson Tale Type Index Numbers
Glossary of Indian Terms within Tales
Bibliography
General Index for Part I: Chapters 1–4
Index: Contributors of Tales
Index: Places That Contributed Tales
Index: Numbers and Titles of Tales
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