Folk Tales from India: A Selection of Oral Tales from Twenty-two Languages

Description: An enchanting collection of 110 tales, translated from twenty-two different languages, that are by turns harrowing and comic, sardonic and allegorical, mysterious and romantic. Gods disguised as beggars and beasts, animals enacting Machiavellian intrigues, sagacious jesters and magical storytellers, wise counselors and foolish kings-all inhabit a fabular world, yet one that is also firmly grounded in everyday life. Here is an indispensable guide to India's ageless folklore tradition. With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library A. K. RAMANUJAN (1929-1993) was William E. Colvin Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several volumes of poetry, including The Striders, Relations, and Selected Poems. His translations from the languages of India include Folktales from India, Speaking of Siva, Some Kannada Poems, Samskara, Hymns for the Drowning, and Poems of Love and War. Preface xi Introduction xiii Twenty-two Languages of India (map) xvii Tell It to the Walls (Tamil) 3 Untold Stories (Gondi) 4 Gopal Bhar the Star-Counter (Bengali) 5 Bopoluchi (Punjabi) 7 The Jasmine Prince (Tamil) 11 Sona and Rupa (Hindu/Malwi) 12 Brother's Day (Rajasthani) 15 The Brahman Who Swallowed a God (Bengali) 20 One Man's Virtue (Oriya) 23 A Crow's Revenge (Kannada) 25 A Story in Search of an Audience (Telugu) 26 The Clay Mother-in-Law (Tamil) 30 The Clever Daughter-in-Law (Kannada) 33 The Barber and the Brahman Demon (Bengali) 39 Why the Fish Laughed (Kashmiri) 41 A Parrot Called Hiraman (Bengali) 46 A Plague Story (Bengali) 51 The Monkey and the Crocodile (Kannada; Tamil) 53 What Happens When You Really Listen (Telugu) 55 Tenali Rama (Kannada; Tamil; Telugu) 56 How Tenali Rama Became a Jester 57 Tenali Rama's Ranayana 57 Two Sisters (Santali) 58 Sukhu and Dukhu (Bengali) 60 One, Two, Three (Santali) 65 The Wife Who Refused to Be Beaten (Kashmiri) 66 The Ogress Queen (Kashmiri) 73 Killed by a Tiger (Santali) 79 Outwitting Fate (Tamil) 81 Four Girls and a King (Punjabi) 88 If It Isn't You, It Must Be Your Father (Kannada) 92 Why Audiences Laugh or Cry (Punjabi) 93 Akbar and Birbal (Urdu) 94 The Best of Flowers 94 Make It Shorter 94 Bring Me Four 95 Sons-in-Law 95 The Night-Blind Son-in-Law (Kannada) 96 Shall I Show You My Real Face? (Tamil) 99 A Malcontent Cured (Kashmiri) 103 The Kite's Daughter (Assamese) 104 A Flowering Tree (Kannada) 110 A Musical Demon (Tamil) 119 Other Lives (Kashmiri) 123 Living Like a Pig (Telugu) 124 A Heron in the Mouth (Bengali) 125 Tenali Rama's Art (Kannada; Tamil; Telugu) 127 One More Use for Artists (Gujerati) 128 Heron Boy (Tulu) 133 The Tiger's Adopted Son (Didayi) 136 How to Live on Half a Pice (Konkani) 138 The Magic Bowls (Tamil) 143 The Four Jogis (Santali) 146 A Friend in Need (Malayalam) 148 Winning a Princess (Tulu) 149 Crossing a River, Losing a Self (Kannada; Tamil; Telugu) 157 Prince Sabar (Gujerati) 159 The Lord of Death (Punjabi) 168 The Shepherd's Ghost (Telugu) 170 The World and the Other (Bengali) 174 If God Is Everywhere (Bengali) 175 A Tiger That Didn't Know Who He Was (Bengali) 176 Gandharva Sen Is Dead! (Bengali) 177 Tenali Rama's Dream (Telugu) 178 A Feast in a Dream (Rajasthani) 179 In Search of a Dream (Santali) 181 The Princess Whose Father Wanted to Marry Her (Tulu) 186 Mother Marries Son (Marathi) 189 A Cure (Bengali) 191 A Tall Tale in Urdu (Urdu) 193 The Greatest (Angami Naga) 197 A Story for Sundays (Marathi) 198 Tenali Rama and the Brahmans (Kannada; Tamil; Telugu) 203 A Hair's-Breadth Escape (Tamil) 204 Between Two Wives (Tamil) 207 The Dead Prince and the Talking Doll (Kannada) 207 The Serpent Mother (Gujerati) 212 Teja and Teji (Assamese) 219 The Dove's Egg: A Chain Tale (Malayalam) 224 A Drum (Hindi) 226 In the Kingdom of Fools (Kannada) 228 Nonviolence (Bengali) 233 The Barber's Secret (Tamil) 234 Gopal Bhar Cures a Dreamer (Bengali) 238 A Scavenger's Dream (Oriya) 239 The Boy Who Sold Wisdom (Gujerati) 240 Two Jars of Persian (Punjabi) 243 In Another Country (Punjabi) 245 One Man's Pleasure (Urdu) 250 Raja Vikram and the Princess of China (Hindi) 251 Walking on Water (Bengali) 262 The Guru and the Idiot (Telugu) 262 Grateful Animals, Ungrateful Man (Hindi/Kumaoni) 263 When a Black Dog Dies (Urdu) 265 The Village Rogue, the City Rogue, and the King of the Rogues (Oriya) 266 A Qazi with a Long Beard (Marathi) 273 The Priest Who Could See as Far as Mecca (Assamese) 273 Adventures of a Disobedient Son (Kannada) 274 Hanchi (Kannada) 285 Buffalo into Rooster (Marathi) 290 The Prince Who Married His Own Left Half (Kannada) 293 A Buffalo Made of Lac (Tamil) 296 A Contest of Lies (Hindi) 299 It's Done with Mirrors (Telugu) 305 The Kurumba in the Parrot's Body (Kota) 306 The Eighth Key (Sindhi) 312 How the Weaver Went to Heaven (Urdu) 318 The Tiger-Makers (Kannada) 319 When a Tale is Finished (Oriya) 320 And Then, Bhurrah! (Marathi) 321 Notes 323 Permissions Acknowledgments 347

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