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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Main Author: Namita Gokhale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2015-12-01
Series:Cracow Indological Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/1677