Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints
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A collection of folk tales collected by Flora Annie Steel as she travelled through India at the turn of the 20th century. Preserved as she heard them, they tell of magical beings, princes, talking beasts, and miraculous happenings, all held together by a recognizable universal evil and the timeless values of mankind. Though the protogonists are driven by adverse forces, beauty, truth and honour usually conquer evil in the end. This edition of with its introdution by Dr Tariq Rahman, serves both its primary purpose of making an important collection of folktales available once again, and at the same time draws much deserved attention to the life and work of Steel (1845-1929).