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Folk Tales of India
Explore Indian folk and literary stories by region, storyteller or named work. The collection names help you choose a voice and keep its identity, whether you came for a familiar tale or something your family has not read before.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 235
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Folk Tales of India
Explore Indian folk and literary stories by region, storyteller or named work. The collection names help you choose a voice and keep its identity, whether you came for a familiar tale or something your family has not read before.
- Series
- 21
- Books
- 235
- Published
- 0
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Tenali Raman & Friends
The wit of Vijayanagara, with the court wits of Delhi and the Hindustani wise fool as sub-shelves.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 33
Vikram and Betal Twenty-five riddles from the tree.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 13
The Ocean of Stories Eighteen lambakas, 124 tarangas.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 124
Series · 21
Gujarati Lok-katha
Tales Ba tells.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 10
Rajasthani Tales
Dhola-Maru, Pabuji, the desert's own stories.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 8
Thakurmar Jhuli
Grandmother's bag of Bengali tales.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 8
Tamil Tales
Paatti's stories from the south.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 7
Aithihyamala
Kerala's garland of legends.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 6
Punjabi Tales
Folk tales of the five rivers.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 7
Marathi Tales
Aaji's stories.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 6
Odia Tales
Stories from the land of Jagannath.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 4
Assamese Tales
Burhi Aair Sadhu: grandmother's tales.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 5
Kashmiri Tales
Stories from the valley.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 4
Brihatkatha (The Great Narrative) A lost narrative tradition known through later adaptations, including Kathasaritsagara and Brihatkathamanjari.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 0
Shukasaptati (Seventy Tales of the Parrot) A parrot keeps Prabhavati at home with nightly stories while her merchant husband is away. The cycle later inspired the Persian Tutinama.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 0
Simhasana Dvatrimsika (Singhasan Battisi) Thirty-two figures associated with Vikramaditya’s throne recount his generosity and courage as King Bhoja considers whether he is worthy of it.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 0
Dashakumaracharita (The Tale of the Ten Princes) A prose romance of ten young men whose adventures move through courts, cities, deception, love and changing fortunes.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 0
Silappadikaram (The Tale of an Anklet) Kannagi seeks justice after Kovalan is wrongly executed. This Tamil epic connects Puhar, Madurai and Vanchi through loss, kingship and the power of her protest.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 0
Kadambari An intricate prose romance of love, separation and rebirth, told through nested narrators. Bana belonged to the literary world of King Harsha.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 0
Gatha Saptashati (Seven Hundred Verses) Short lyric poems evoke village life, desire, love and separation. These are poetic vignettes rather than a continuous epic.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 0
Brihatkathamanjari (The Great Tale’s Garland) Kshemendra’s condensed verse retelling preserves another strand of the lost Brihatkatha tradition alongside Somadeva’s larger collection.
Published: 0 · In catalogue: 0
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Bagh o chhagol.
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A trunk full of water.
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Guduguduppukkaran.
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Twelve children of one mother.
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Lambikin, lambikin, I'll eat you!
From the original text · Oral tradition
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Who is the cleverest?
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A pumpkin and a promise.
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The flute by the Chenab, for the older ones.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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The sparrow's house of wax and the crow's house of dung.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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Makad ani usachi kandi.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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A grandmother who tricked a lion.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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Tanaji and the monitor lizard, for the older ones.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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Songs of Navratri.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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Why the wooden god has short arms.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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The chariot that everyone pulls.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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Bulbul and the lake.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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A king who swept the road.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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Hati aru tunituni.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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The girl and the serpent prince.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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Sheep and snow.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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Reading this collection together
- Start with one episode
- Choose one published tale and preview it for the listener’s age. Folk and literary collections can contain difficult themes; a playful title is not an age rating.
- What to notice
- A remembered family version may differ from the edition here. Name that difference instead of silently joining the two accounts.
- A question to share
- Does someone in your family remember another telling? Share the memory after reading and say where you heard it.