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Old Deccan days, or, Hindoo fairy legends / Mary Frere ; edited and with an introduction by Kirin Narayan ; includes complete original illustrations by Catherine Frances Frere.

Title
Old Deccan days, or, Hindoo fairy legends / Mary Frere ; edited and with an introduction by Kirin Narayan ; includes complete original illustrations by Catherine Frances Frere.
Author
Frere, Mary, 1845-1911
Publication
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Narayan, Kirin
  • Frere, Catherine Frances, -1921
Description
xxxii, 259 p. : ill.; 27 cm.
Summary
A collection of folk tales from India's fairyland where rajas, ranis, rakshas, jackals, magicians, and cobras prevail.
Series Statement
ABC-CLIO classic folk and fairy tales
Uniform Title
ABC-CLIO classic folk and fairy tales
Alternative Title
  • Old Deccan days
  • Hindoo fairy legends
Subjects
Genre/Form
Fairy tales
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface to the third English edition -- Introduction -- The collector's apology -- The narrator's narrative -- Punchkin -- A funny story -- Brave Seventee Bai -- Truth's triumph -- Rama and Luxman, or, The learned owl -- Little Surya Bai -- The wanderings of Vicram Maharajah -- Less inequality than men deem -- Panch-Phul Ranee -- How the sun, the moon, and the wind went out to dinner -- Singh Rajah and the cunning little jackals -- The jackal, the barber, and the Brahman who had seven daughters -- Tit for tat -- The Brahman, the tiger, and the six judges -- The selfish sparrow and the houseless crows -- The valiant chattee-maker -- The Rakshas' palace -- The blind man, the deaf man, and the donkey -- Muchie-Lal -- Chundun Rajah -- Sodewa Bai -- Chandra's vengeance -- How the three clever men outwitted the demons -- The alligator and the jackal.
ISBN
1576076806 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2002012850
OCLC
  • 49239968
  • SCSB-12139132
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library