Old Deccan Days Or, Hindoo Fairy Legends, Current in Southern India [Paperback]

A collection of twenty-four traditional Indian folk tales from the state of Maharashtra, first published in 1868.First published in 1868, this volume contains a collection of twenty-four traditional stories from the southern Indian state of Maharashtra recorded by Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (18451911) from her chaperone Anna Liberata da Souza. Their publication revealed new information concerning traditional Indian culture.First published in 1868, this volume contains a collection of twenty-four traditional stories from the southern Indian state of Maharashtra recorded by Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (18451911) from her chaperone Anna Liberata da Souza. Their publication revealed new information concerning traditional Indian culture.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 (18451911) 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.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, thl£`