Full-text resources of CEJSH and other databases are now available in the new Library of Science.
Visit https://bibliotekanauki.pl

Refine search results

Journals help

  1. 1 Cracow Indological Studies

Authors help

  1. 1 Gokhale N.

Years help

  1. 1 2015

System messages
  • Session was invalidated!

Results found: 1

first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last

Search results

Search:
in the keywords:  Pahari folklore
help Sort By:

help Limit search:
first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last
1

Travelling Tales: Some Stories from the Middle Himalayas

100%
Gokhale N.
Cracow Indological Studies
|
2015
|
vol. 17: Crossing over “on the Birds’ Wings”: South Asian Literature in Local and Global Contexts
133-147
EN
This paper presents a fascinating book, which has been very recently released in India from Yatra publishing house—Clever Wives and Happy Idiots. Folktales from the Kumaon Himalayas (New Delhi: Yatra Books 2015). Originally written in Russian in 1875 by the ethnographer Ivan P. Minayev (1840–1890), it records the folktales, myths and legends of the Himalayan region of Kumaon, as also his impressions of the region. His account, preserved as it were in amber and never before translated into English, has both historical and archival value and the charm of rediscovering the folk narrative of Uttarakhand. Two tales from the book, translated by Bulbul Sharma and Madhu Malik, are published as an illustration for this essay.
first rewind previous Page / 1 next fast forward last
JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Turn it on to take full advantage of this site, then refresh the page.