Flowering Tree And Other Oral Tales From India

As a young college lecturer in the 1950s, Ramanujan collected tales from servants, aunts, schoolteachers, children—anyone who would tell him a story—and translated and interpreted them over the next three decades. This volume includes seventy-seven tales, with Ramanujan’s notes that help place the stories in their cultural and literary contexts.

‘‘ ‘…a story-lover’s delight.’ —The Pioneer ‘…a valuable contribution to the study of the folktale in India.’ —India Today