Folk Tales of Uttarakhand

Folk Tales of Uttarakhand PDF Author: Deepa Agarwal
Publisher: Children's Book Trust
ISBN: 9788189750381
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Folk Tales of Uttarakhand

Folk Tales of Uttarakhand PDF Author: Deepa Agarwal
Publisher: Children's Book Trust
ISBN: 9788189750381
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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The Gijjigadus and the Fireflies

The Gijjigadus and the Fireflies PDF Author:
Publisher: Katha
ISBN: 9788189934750
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Where Gods Dwell

Where Gods Dwell PDF Author: Kusum Budhwar
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184752857
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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An introduction to the colourful and exuberant folk literature from the hills of Kumaon and Garhwal In the iridescent snows of the Central Himalayas known as Devbhoomi, the land of the gods, there is a story for every mountain, river and tree. Kusum Budhwar introduces us to Kumaon and Garhwal’s rich and rarely translated folk literature by retelling the colourful and exuberant stories of the region. Whimsical and imaginative, these are tales of high adventure, luminous love and romance, benevolent pastoral gods, local heroes, brave medieval warriors, sacred sites and historical anecdotes, all of which are equally popular in these parts but little known outside. Arranged in sections, each focusing on a particular theme, the book opens with Nanda Devi, the patron goddess of the region, believed to be the daughter of the Himalayas. In the sections that follow we become intimately acquainted with the enchanting adventure sagas of the Ramola clan, the Ramola Gathas; the romantic ballads ‘Malushahi’ and ‘Haru Heet’; the tale of Chyongompa, the demon bird; and the simple stories, imbued with faith, of local gods and goddesses like Golu Dev and Devmangala, among others. Where Gods Dwell not only allows us to savour the stories of the hills, resonating with the cheerful cadences of mountain streams and the dark silence of the forests, but also offers us a rare glimpse of the culture, life and society of the people of the region whose lives are shaped by the rugged terrain they inhabit and who revere the mountains on which they make their home.

Folk Tales of the North-East

Folk Tales of the North-East PDF Author: Sudhamahi Regunathan
Publisher: Children's Book Trust
ISBN: 9788170119678
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Folk Tales of Orissa

Folk Tales of Orissa PDF Author: Ramendra Kumar
Publisher: Children's Book Trust
ISBN: 9788189750992
Category : Tales
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Gajapati Kulapati

Gajapati Kulapati PDF Author: Ashok Rajagopalan
Publisher: Tulika Books
ISBN: 9788181468352
Category : Children's stories, Indic (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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A story about the big, gentle temple elephant, Gajapati Kulapati catching a cold.

Tales from the Himalayas

Tales from the Himalayas PDF Author: Priyanka Pradhan
Publisher: Rupa Publication
ISBN: 9789390356706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Award-winning writer Priyanka Pradhan takes you on a journey into the Himalayas through its stories. You'll find tales of snow leopards and mountain ghouls, bagpiping girls and itchy herbs, and stories even as old as 500 years! See the beautiful state of Uttarakhand, resplendent in its colourful customs and traditional costumes, taste the sweet-sour wild berries, feel the chilly autumn wind on your skin and smell the musky pine forests, in seventeen stories. Welcome to the mountains.

Folk Tales of Himachal Pradesh

Folk Tales of Himachal Pradesh PDF Author: Som P. Ranchan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tales
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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The Shooting Star

The Shooting Star PDF Author: Shivya Nath
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9353052653
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Shivya Nath quit her corporate job at age twenty-three to travel the world. She gave up her home and the need for a permanent address, sold most of her possessions and embarked on a nomadic journey that has taken her everywhere from remote Himalayan villages to the Amazon rainforests of Ecuador. Along the way, she lived with an indigenous Mayan community in Guatemala, hiked alone in the Ecuadorian Andes, got mugged in Costa Rica, swam across the border from Costa Rica to Panama, slept under a meteor shower in the cracked salt desert of Gujarat and learnt to conquer her deepest fears. With its vivid descriptions, cinematic landscapes, moving encounters and uplifting adventures, The Shooting Star is a travel memoir that maps not just the world but the human spirit.

Animal Intimacies

Animal Intimacies PDF Author: Radhika Govindrajan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022656004X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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“A delightful read [and] an important addition to human-animal relations studies.” —Anthropology Matters What does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human and non-human animals. Built on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the mountain villages of India’s Central Himalayas, Radhika Govindrajan’s book explores the number of ways that human and animal interact to cultivate relationships as interconnected, related beings. Whether it is through the study of the affect and ethics of ritual animal sacrifice, analysis of the right-wing political project of cow-protection, or examination of villagers’ talk about bears who abduct women and have sex with them, Govindrajan illustrates that multispecies relatedness relies on both difference and ineffable affinity between animals. Animal Intimacies breaks substantial new ground in animal studies, and Govindrajan’s detailed portrait of the social, political and religious life of the region will be of interest to cultural anthropologists and scholars of South Asia as well. “Immerses us in passionate case studies on the multiple relationships between Kumaoni villagers and animals in Uttarakhand.” —European Bulletin of Himalayan Research “A memorable and innovative ethnography.” —Piers Locke, University of Canterbury