Oral tradition
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Source works: Government of Assam: Alaboi and Saraighat · Vetala Panchavimshati (Baital Pachisi) · Thakurmar Jhuli and more
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22 Collections
33 stories
The wit of Vijayanagara, with the court wits of Delhi and the Hindustani wise fool as sub-shelves.
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Twenty-five riddles from the tree.
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Tales Ba tells.
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Dhola-Maru, Pabuji, the desert's own stories.
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Grandmother's bag of Bengali tales.
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Paatti's stories from the south.
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Kerala's garland of legends.
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Folk tales of the five rivers.
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Aaji's stories.
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Stories from the land of Jagannath.
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Burhi Aair Sadhu: grandmother's tales.
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Stories from the valley.
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Ashoka to Ahilyabai.
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The people who made 1947.
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Aryabhata to Kalam.
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Dhyan Chand to Mary Kom.
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India's highest gallantry award, and the soldiers who earned it.
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What my name means, two languages, two homes.
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My very big Indian family.
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British AND Indian. Christmas AND Diwali.
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Wisdom, history and the big questions.
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Chanakya, Abbakka and Vivekananda: counsel, resistance and renewal across different traditions.
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Tales with no single source text; the region and the collection cited per book
25-tale tradition; Burton’s selected English adaptation is not a complete Sanskrit witness
Source edition recordDakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder (1907)
Kottarathil Sankunni (1909–34); 126 legends
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