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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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- 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