Indian Stories
Hardcover
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A uniquely diverse Pocket Classics collection of short stories from all of the major cultures and languages of India
India has a long tradition of storytelling. To use Salman Rushdie’s phrase it is “an ocean of stories.” When British rule brought the Western forms of the novel and the short story to India, they were grafted onto more ancient and varied oral traditions. Rabindranath Tagore was the first to popularize this form of writing with the short story collections he published in the 18...
India has a long tradition of storytelling. To use Salman Rushdie’s phrase it is “an ocean of stories.” When British rule brought the Western forms of the novel and the short story to India, they were grafted onto more ancient and varied oral traditions. Rabindranath Tagore was the first to popularize this form of writing with the short story collections he published in the 18...






















