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Old Deccan Days - Or, Hindoo Fairy Legends, Current In Southern India (Paperback)
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Old Deccan Days - Or, Hindoo Fairy Legends, Current In Southern India (Paperback)
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Old Deccan Days With an Introduc- tion and Notes by Albany, - 1897
-- CONTENTS. Am INTRODUCTIUN
.......................................... S THE COLLECTORS AWLOOY
.............................. Ia sat NARRATORS NARRATIVB
............................ I5 I . PUNCHKIN
........................................... 27 2 . A FUNNY STORY
..................................... H 3 . BRAVE SEVSNTEE.BAI
................................ 51 4 . TRUTHS TRIUMPH
................................... 81 5 . RAMA AND LUXMAN OR, THE
LEARND OWL ......... 98 6 . LITTLE SURYA BA1
................................... 113 7 . THE WANDERINGS OF
VICRAM -JAH ........... I29 8 . LESS IQUITY THAN MEN DEEM 161
.................. g . PANCH-PHUL RANBIB
................................. 16 10 . HOW THE SUN. THE MOON AND
THE WIND WENT OUT TO DINNER .......................................
19 I I . SINGH-RAJAH AND THE -G LITTLE JACKALS .... 196 I1 . THE
JACKAL. THE BARBER AND THE BRAHMIN WHO HAD SEVEN DAUGHTERS
................................ I 13 . TIT FOR TAT
........................................ 118 I4 . THE BRAHMIN. THE
TIGER AND THE SIX JUDGILS ..... 130 15 . THE SELFISH SPARROW AND
THE HOUSELESS CROWS .. 115 8 4 Contents . O 16 . THE VALIANT
CFIATTEE.MAKER ...................... 327 .
.............................. 17 THE RAKSHAS PALACE 236 18 . TIiE
BLIND IbIAN, TIIE DEAF MAN AND TSF DONKEY .. 248 I9 . MUClrlE LAL
......................................... 258 20 . CIIUNDUN RAJAH
.................................... 26s 11 . SODEWA BA1
............................... . ... 2fb 22 . CIIANDRAS VENGEANCE
.............................. 291 23 . HOW TIIE THREE CLEVER MEN
OUTWITTED TIIE DEMONS 314 . ................... 24THE ALLIGATOR AND
THE JACKAL 326 NOTES
.................................................. 333 A
INTRODUCTION. FEW words seem necessary regarding the origin of
these stories, in addition to what the Narrator says for herself in
her Narrative, and what is stated in the Collectors 16 Apology.
With the exception of two or three, which will be recognized as
substantially identical with stories of Pilpay or other well-known
Hindoo fabulists, I never before heard any of these tales among the
Mahrattas, in that part of the Deccan where the Narrator and her
family have lived for the last two generations and it is probable
that most of the stories were brought from among the Lingaets of
Southern India, the tribe, or rather sect, to which Anna de Souza
tells us her kmily beIonged befbre their conversion to
Christianity. The Lingaets form one of the most strongly marked
divisions of the Hindoo races south of the river Kistna. They are
generally a well-favored, well-to-do people, noticeable for their
superior frugality, intelligence and industry, and for the way in
which they combine and act together as a separate body apart from
other Hindoos. They have many peculiarities of costume, of social
ceremony and of religion, which strike even a casual observer and
though clearly not aboriginal, they seem to have much ground for
their claim to belong to a more ancient race and an earlier wave of
imrni. gration than most of the Hindoo nations with which they are
now intermingled. The country they inhabit is tolerably familiar to
most English readers on Indian subjects, for it is the theatre of
many of the events described in the great Dukes earlier despatches,
and in the writings of Munro, of Wilkes, andof Buchanan. The
extraordinary beauty of some of the natural 1 6 features of the
coast scenery, and the abundance of the archi- tectural and other
remains of powerful and highly civilized dindoo dynasties, have
attracted the attention of tourists and antiquaries, though not to
the extent their intrinsic merit deserves...
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