Travelling Tales: Some Stories from the Middle Himalayas

This paper presents a fascinating book, which has been very recently released in India from Yatra publishing house—Clever Wives and Happy Idiots: Folktales from the Kumaon Himalayas (New Delhi: Yatra Books 2015). Originally written in Russian in 1875 by the ethnographer Ivan P. Minayev (1840–1890),...

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Autor principal:	Namita Gokhale
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Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2021
Materias:	Indian folklore Pahari folklore Kumaon Garhwal Ivan Minayev translation Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:33ddfd473f324d6f8033df9b7b40d5882021-11-27T12:53:27ZTravelling Tales: Some Stories from the Middle Himalayas10.12797/CIS.17.2015.17.071732-09172449-8696https://doaj.org/article/33ddfd473f324d6f8033df9b7b40d5882021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/1677https://doaj.org/toc/1732-0917https://doaj.org/toc/2449-8696 This paper presents a fascinating book, which has been very recently released in India from Yatra publishing house—Clever Wives and Happy Idiots: Folktales from the Kumaon Himalayas (New Delhi: Yatra Books 2015). Originally written in Russian in 1875 by the ethnographer Ivan P. Minayev (1840–1890), it records the folktales, myths and legends of the Himalayan region of Kumaon, as also his impressions of the region. His account, preserved as it were in amber and never before translated into English, has both historical and archival value and the charm of rediscovering the folk narrative of Uttarakhand. Two tales from the book, translated by Bulbul Sharma and Madhu Malik, are published as an illustration for this essay. Namita GokhaleKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticleIndian folklorePahari folkloreKumaonGarhwalIvan MinayevtranslationIndo-Iranian languages and literaturePK1-9601Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENCracow Indological Studies, Vol 17 (2021)
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topic	Indian folklore Pahari folklore Kumaon Garhwal Ivan Minayev translation Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
spellingShingle	Indian folklore Pahari folklore Kumaon Garhwal Ivan Minayev translation Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 Namita Gokhale Travelling Tales: Some Stories from the Middle Himalayas
description	This paper presents a fascinating book, which has been very recently released in India from Yatra publishing house—Clever Wives and Happy Idiots: Folktales from the Kumaon Himalayas (New Delhi: Yatra Books 2015). Originally written in Russian in 1875 by the ethnographer Ivan P. Minayev (1840–1890), it records the folktales, myths and legends of the Himalayan region of Kumaon, as also his impressions of the region. His account, preserved as it were in amber and never before translated into English, has both historical and archival value and the charm of rediscovering the folk narrative of Uttarakhand. Two tales from the book, translated by Bulbul Sharma and Madhu Malik, are published as an illustration for this essay.
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Travelling Tales: Some Stories from the Middle Himalayas

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