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In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke
Sadhana Naithani
Price
1650.00
ISBN
9788125034506
Language
English
Pages
344
Format
Hardback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2009
Territorial Rights
Restricted
Imprint
Orient BlackSwan

In Quest of Indian Folktales publishes for the first time a collection of northern Indian folktales from the late nineteenth century. Reputedly the work of William Crooke, a well-known folklorist and British colonial official, the tales were actually collected, selected, and translated by a certain Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube. In 1996, Sadhana Naithani discovered this unpublished collection in the archive of the Folklore Society, London. Since then, she has uncovered the identity of the mysterious Chaube and the details of his collaboration with the famous folklorist. In an extensive four-chapter introduction, Naithani describes Chaube's relationship to Crooke and the essential role he played in Crooke's work, as both a native informant and a trained scholar. By unearthing the fragmented story of Chaube's life, Naithani gives voice to a new identity of an Indian folklore scholar in colonial India. The publication of these tales and the discovery of Chaube's role in their collection reveal the complexity of the colonial intellectual world and problematize our own views of folklore in a postcolonial world.

Sadhana Naithani is Assistant Professor of Language, Literature and Culture Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is the author of several research articles on colonialism and folklore, and editor of Folktales from Northern India.
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