{"product_id":"9780253112026","title":"In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[A] rare piece of scholarly detective work.\" -- Margaret\u003cbr\u003e Mills, Ohio State University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Quest of Indian Folktales\u003cbr\u003e publishes for the first time a collection of northern Indian folktales from the late\u003cbr\u003e 19th century. Reputedly the work of William Crooke, a well-known folklorist and\u003cbr\u003e British colonial official, the tales were actually collected, selected, and\u003cbr\u003e translated by a certain Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube. In 1996, Sadhana Naithani\u003cbr\u003e discovered this unpublished collection in the archive of the Folklore Society,\u003cbr\u003e London. Since then, she has uncovered the identity of the mysterious Chaube and the\u003cbr\u003e details of his collaboration with the famous folklorist. In an extensive\u003cbr\u003e four-chapter introduction, Naithani describes Chaube's relationship to Crooke and\u003cbr\u003e the essential role he played in Crooke's work, as both a native informant and a\u003cbr\u003e trained scholar. By unearthing the fragmented story of Chaube's life, Naithani gives\u003cbr\u003e voice to a new identity of an Indian folklore scholar in colonial India. The\u003cbr\u003e publication of these tales and the discovery of Chaube's role in their collection\u003cbr\u003e reveal the complexity of the colonial intellectual world and problematize our own\u003cbr\u003e views of folklore in a postcolonial world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067716911344,"sku":"9780253112026","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253112026","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}