Old Deccan Tales is a collection of folk tales from India's rich
fairyland where rajas, ranis, rakshas, jackals, magicians, and
cobras prevail. Children will enjoy the daring, brave, and
wonderful creatures and people that populate the stories as they
strive to improve their lives or to save themselves, their friends,
and their loved ones from trials most deadly. * * * * First
published in 1868, this was the first English-language
field-collected set of twenty-four traditional stories from the
southern Indian state of Maharashtra. The author, 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 at the time of being lost. German orientologist Max Muller
(1823-1900) reviewed this collection and wrote that her rendition
of Sanskrit originals read like a direct translation of ancient
Sanskrit. * * * * This is a copy of the third edition, published in
1881, and has a brief nine-page biography of the narrator, Anna
Liberata da Souza, describing her life and childhood. In the
third-edition Preface Mary Frere provides more details on the
events surrounding her collecting the stories, which is in addition
to the information on the stories themselves and the conventions
she took in recording them given in the Introduction and the
Collector's Apology. The books was extremely popular, being
reprinted in four editions by 1889 and encouraged the study of
comparative mythology while revealing new information concerning
Indian traditional culture. * * * * Check out the Flying Chipmunk
Publishing catalog at www.FlyingChipmunkPublishing.com, or Friend
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