Folktales from India: a selection of oral tales from twenty-two languages/ edited by A.K. Ramanujan

Contributor(s): Ramanujan, A. K., edMaterial type: TextTextSeries: (Pantheon fairy tale and folklore library)Publication details: New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1991Description: xxxv, 419 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN: 9780143066439Subject(s): Oral tradition | TalesDDC classification: 398.20954
Contents:
Tell it to the walls / Tamil -- Untold stories / Gondi -- Gopal Bhar the star-counter / Bengali -- Bopoluchi / Punjabi -- The Jasmine Prince / Tamil -- Sona and Rupa / Hindi/Malwi -- Brother's day / Rajasthani -- The Brahman who swallowed a God / Bengali -- One man's virtue / Oriya -- A crow's revenge / Kannada -- A story in search of an audience / Telugu -- The clay mother-in-law / Kannada -- The barber and the Brahman demon / Benjali -- Why the fish laughed / Kashmiri -- A parrot called Hiraman / Bengali -- The monkey and the crocodile / Kannada; Tamil -- What happens when you really listen / Telugu -- Tenali Rama / Kannada; Tamil; Telugu -- How Tenali Rama became a Jester -- Tenali Rama's Ramayana -- Two sisters / Santali -- Sukhu and Dukhu / Bengali -- One, two, three / Santali -- The wife who refused to be beaten / Kashmiri -- The Ogress Queen / Kashmiri -- Killed by a tiger / Santali -- Outwitting fate / Tamil -- Four girls and a king / Punjabi. If it isn't you, it must be your father / Kannada -- Why audiences laugh or cry / Punjabi -- Akbar and Birbal ; The best of flowers ; Make it shorter ; Bring be four ; Sons-in-law / Urdu -- The night-blind son-in-law / Kannada -- Shall I show you my real face? / Tamil -- A malcontent cured / Kashmiri -- The kite's daughter / Assamese -- A flowering tree / Kannada -- A musical demon / Tamil -- Other lives / Kashmiri -- Living like a pig / Telugu -- A heron in the mouth / Bengali -- Tenali Rama's art / Kannada; Tamil; Telugu -- One more use for artists / Gujerati -- Heron boy / Tulu -- The tiger's adopted son / Didayi -- How to live on half a pice / Konkani -- The magic bowls / Tamil -- The four jogis / Santali -- A friend in need / Malayalam -- Winning a princess / Tulu -- Crossing a river, losing a self / Kannada; Tamil; Telugu -- Prince sabar / Gujerati. The lord of death / Punjabi -- The shepherd's ghost / Telugu -- This world and the other / Bengali -- If God is everywhere / Bengali -- A tiger that didn't know who he was / Bengali -- Gandharva Sen is dead! / Bengali -- Tenali Rama's dream / Telugu -- A feast in a dream / Rajasthani -- In search of a dream / Santali -- The princess whose father wanted to marry her / Tulu -- Mother marries son / Marathi -- A cure / Bengali -- A tall tale in Urdu / Urdu -- The greatest / Angami Naga -- A story for Sundays / Marathi -- Tenali Rama and the Brahmans / Kannada; Tamil; Telugu -- A hair's-breadth escape / Tamil -- Between two wives / Tamil -- The dead prince and the talking doll / Kannada -- The serpent mother / Gujerati -- Teja and Teji / Assamese -- The dove's egg: a chain tale / Malayalam -- A drum / Hindi -- In the kingdom of fools / Kannada -- Nonviolence / Bengali -- The barber's secret / Tamil. Gopal Bhar cures a dreamer / Benjali -- A scavenger's dream / Oriya -- The boy who sold wisdom / Gujerati -- Two jars of persian / Punjabi -- In another country / Punjabi -- One man's pleasure / Urdu -- Raja Vikram and the princess of China / Hindi -- Walking on water / Bengali -- The guru and the idiot / Telugu -- Grateful animals, ungrateful man / Hindi/Kumaoni -- When a black dog dies / Urdu -- The village rogue, the city rogue, and the king of rogues / Oriya -- A qazi with a long beard / Marathi -- The priest who could see as far as Mecca / Assamese -- Adventures of a disobedient son / Kannada -- Hanchi / Kannada -- Buffalo into rooster / Marathi -- The prince who married his own left half / Kannada -- A buffalo made of lac / Tamil -- A contest of lies / Hindi -- It's done with mirrors / Telugu -- The kurumba in the parrot's body / Kota -- The eighth key / Sindhi -- How the weaver went to heaven / Urdu. The tiger-makers / Kannada -- When a tale is finished / Oriya -- And then, Bhurrah! / Marathi.
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Tell it to the walls / Tamil --
Untold stories / Gondi --
Gopal Bhar the star-counter / Bengali --
Bopoluchi / Punjabi --
The Jasmine Prince / Tamil --
Sona and Rupa / Hindi/Malwi --
Brother's day / Rajasthani --
The Brahman who swallowed a God / Bengali --
One man's virtue / Oriya --
A crow's revenge / Kannada --
A story in search of an audience / Telugu --
The clay mother-in-law / Kannada --
The barber and the Brahman demon / Benjali --
Why the fish laughed / Kashmiri --
A parrot called Hiraman / Bengali --
The monkey and the crocodile / Kannada; Tamil --
What happens when you really listen / Telugu --
Tenali Rama / Kannada; Tamil; Telugu --
How Tenali Rama became a Jester --
Tenali Rama's Ramayana --
Two sisters / Santali --
Sukhu and Dukhu / Bengali --
One, two, three / Santali --
The wife who refused to be beaten / Kashmiri --
The Ogress Queen / Kashmiri --
Killed by a tiger / Santali --
Outwitting fate / Tamil --
Four girls and a king / Punjabi. If it isn't you, it must be your father / Kannada --
Why audiences laugh or cry / Punjabi --
Akbar and Birbal ; The best of flowers ; Make it shorter ; Bring be four ; Sons-in-law / Urdu --
The night-blind son-in-law / Kannada --
Shall I show you my real face? / Tamil --
A malcontent cured / Kashmiri --
The kite's daughter / Assamese --
A flowering tree / Kannada --
A musical demon / Tamil --
Other lives / Kashmiri --
Living like a pig / Telugu --
A heron in the mouth / Bengali --
Tenali Rama's art / Kannada; Tamil; Telugu --
One more use for artists / Gujerati --
Heron boy / Tulu --
The tiger's adopted son / Didayi --
How to live on half a pice / Konkani --
The magic bowls / Tamil --
The four jogis / Santali --
A friend in need / Malayalam --
Winning a princess / Tulu --
Crossing a river, losing a self / Kannada; Tamil; Telugu --
Prince sabar / Gujerati. The lord of death / Punjabi --
The shepherd's ghost / Telugu --
This world and the other / Bengali --
If God is everywhere / Bengali --
A tiger that didn't know who he was / Bengali --
Gandharva Sen is dead! / Bengali --
Tenali Rama's dream / Telugu --
A feast in a dream / Rajasthani --
In search of a dream / Santali --
The princess whose father wanted to marry her / Tulu --
Mother marries son / Marathi --
A cure / Bengali --
A tall tale in Urdu / Urdu --
The greatest / Angami Naga --
A story for Sundays / Marathi --
Tenali Rama and the Brahmans / Kannada; Tamil; Telugu --
A hair's-breadth escape / Tamil --
Between two wives / Tamil --
The dead prince and the talking doll / Kannada --
The serpent mother / Gujerati --
Teja and Teji / Assamese --
The dove's egg: a chain tale / Malayalam --
A drum / Hindi --
In the kingdom of fools / Kannada --
Nonviolence / Bengali --
The barber's secret / Tamil. Gopal Bhar cures a dreamer / Benjali --
A scavenger's dream / Oriya --
The boy who sold wisdom / Gujerati --
Two jars of persian / Punjabi --
In another country / Punjabi --
One man's pleasure / Urdu --
Raja Vikram and the princess of China / Hindi --
Walking on water / Bengali --
The guru and the idiot / Telugu --
Grateful animals, ungrateful man / Hindi/Kumaoni --
When a black dog dies / Urdu --
The village rogue, the city rogue, and the king of rogues / Oriya --
A qazi with a long beard / Marathi --
The priest who could see as far as Mecca / Assamese --
Adventures of a disobedient son / Kannada --
Hanchi / Kannada --
Buffalo into rooster / Marathi --
The prince who married his own left half / Kannada --
A buffalo made of lac / Tamil --
A contest of lies / Hindi --
It's done with mirrors / Telugu --
The kurumba in the parrot's body / Kota --
The eighth key / Sindhi --
How the weaver went to heaven / Urdu. The tiger-makers / Kannada --
When a tale is finished / Oriya --
And then, Bhurrah! / Marathi.

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