Old Deccan days, or, Hindoo fairy legends, current in Southern India
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Old Deccan days, or, Hindoo fairy legends, current in Southern India
（Cambridge library collection, . Women's writing）
Cambridge University Press, 2010
- : pbk
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Reprint. Originally published: London : John Murray, 1868
Description and Table of Contents
Description
First published in 1868, this volume contains a collection of twenty-four traditional stories from the southern Indian state of Maharashtra. Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845-1911) travelled to India in 1863 to stay with her father, Sir Bartle Frere, the Governor of Bombay. She became fascinated with Indian culture and transcribed these stories from her ayah (nanny and chaperone) Anna Liberata da Souza who had been told them by her grandmother. Expressive and detailed, these stories formed part of southern India's traditional oral culture, at risk of being lost. This volume includes an introduction by Sir Bartle Frere exploring the cultural background to the stories and a chapter by Anna Liberata da Souza describing her life and childhood. This volume was extremely popular, being reprinted in four editions by 1889 and encouraging the study of comparative mythology while revealing new information concerning Indian traditional culture.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The collector's apology
- The narrator's narrative
- 1. Punchkin
- 2. A funny story
- 3. Brave Seventee-Bai
- 4. Truth's triumph
- 5. Rama and Luxman, or, the learned owl
- 6. Little Surya-Bai
- 7. The wanderings of Vicram Maharajah
- 8. Less inequality than men deem
- 9. Panch-Phul Ranee
- 10. How the sun, the moon, and the wind went out to dinner
- 11. Singh-Rajah, and the cunning little jackals
- 12. The jackal, the barber, and the brahmin who had seven daughters
- 13. Tit for tat
- 14. The brahmin, the tiger, and the six judges
- 15. The selfish sparrow and the houseless crows
- 16. The valiant chattee-maker
- 17. The Rakshas' palace
- 18. The blind man, the deaf man, and the donkey
- 19. Muchie-Lal
- 20. Chundun-Rajah
- 21. Sodewa-Bai
- 22. Chandra's vengeance
- 23. How the three clever men outwitted the demons
- 24. The alligator and the jackal
- Notes.
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