Author: Lal Behari DayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Bengal Peasant Life
Author: Lal Behari DayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Bengal Peasant Life, by Lál Behári Day
Author: Lal Behari DayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 883
Book Description
Bengal Peasant Life, by the Rev. Lál Behári Day, ...
Author: Lālavihāri DeBengal Peasant Life
Author: Lal Behari DayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Notes on Bengal Peasant Life. (Lal Behari Dey.)
Author: Lal Behari DayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bengali literature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Bengal Peasant Life
Author: Lal Behari DayPublisher:
ISBN: 9788170200987
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Bengal Peasant Life
Author: Lál Behári DayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Bengal Peasant Life
Author: Lál Behari DayFolk-tales of Bengal
Author: Lal Behari DayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bengali (South Asian people)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day
Author: Lal Behari DayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In my Peasant Life in Bengal I make the peasant boy Govinda spend some hours every evening in listening to stories told by an old woman, who was called Sambhu's mother, and who was the best story-teller in the village. On reading that passage, Captain R. C. Temple, of the Bengal Staff Corps, son of the distinguished Indian administrator Sir Richard Temple, wrote to me to say how interesting it would be to get a collection of those unwritten stories which old women in India recite to little children in the evenings, and to ask whether I could not make such a collection. As I was no stranger to the Mährchen of the Brothers Grimm, to the Norse Tales so admirably told by Dasent, to Arnason's Icelandic Stories translated by Powell, to the Highland Stories done into English by Campbell, and to the fairy stories collected by other writers, and as I believed that the collection suggested would be a contribution, however slight, to that daily increasing literature of folk-lore and comparative mythology which, like comparative philosophy, proves that the swarthy and half-naked peasant on the banks of the Ganges is a cousin, albeit of the hundredth remove, to the fair-skinned and well-dressed Englishman on the banks of the Thames, I readily caught up the idea and cast about for materials. But where was an old story-telling woman to be got? I had myself, when a little boy, heard hundreds-it would be no exaggeration to say thousands-of fairy tales from that same old woman