Folk Tales of India

Contents: 1. Punchkin. 2. Brave seventee bai. 3. Rama and Luxman, or the learned owl. 4. Little Surya Bai. 5. Panch-phul ranee. 6. The Rakshas Palace. 7. Chundun Rajah. 8. Sodewa Bai. 9. Chandras vengeance. 10. How the three clever men outwitted the demons.

Collections in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries unearthed a wealth of stories from around the world and published them in English translations for the delight of general readers, young and old most of these anthologies have been long out of print. Certain to be of interest to folklorists, these classic collections are also meant to serve as sources for storytellers and for sheer reading pleasure, reviving as they do lot of folk stories both reassuringly familiar and excitingly strange. (jacket)