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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    November 2011
    September 2010
    ISBN:
    9780511756481
    9781108020770
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511756481
    Dimensions:
    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.48kg, 380 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, Asian Literature, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, Asian Literature, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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    First published in 1868, this volume contains a collection of twenty-four traditional stories from the southern Indian state of Maharashtra. Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845–1911) travelled to India in 1863 to stay with her father, Sir Bartle Frere, the Governor of Bombay. She became fascinated with Indian culture and transcribed these stories from her ayah (nanny and chaperone) Anna Liberata da Souza who had been told them by her grandmother. Expressive and detailed, these stories formed part of southern India's traditional oral culture, at risk of being lost. This volume includes an introduction by Sir Bartle Frere exploring the cultural background to the stories and a chapter by Anna Liberata da Souza describing her life and childhood. This volume was extremely popular, being reprinted in four editions by 1889 and encouraging the study of comparative mythology while revealing new information concerning Indian traditional culture.

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