In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke

"[A] rare piece of scholarly detective work." -- Margaret
Mills, Ohio State University

In Quest of Indian Folktales
publishes for the first time a collection of northern Indian folktales from the late
19th 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discovered this unpublished collection in the archive of the Fo...