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About The Book
THE work which Pandit Natesa Sastri has been engaged in for so many years and of which this volume is only one small exem-plar deserves every welcome and support as much from his own countrymen as from foreign dwellers in the land. The folklore of a country is never so well known even by the folk of the country itself that popular literature concern-ing it is not to be heartily welcomed. More-over there is always a young generation grow-ing up which is waiting to be instructed in it by the easiest and widest possible means.
The simpler tenets of religion and the more popular tales and legends are learned from the lips of parents and teachers: but there is much that can only be learned from books. Further in these days of hurry and stress by which even India is being more or less affected the old leisurely yet possibly more thorough methods of oral tradition and teaching are no longer possible and we must trust more and more to written and printed records. Pandit Natesa Sastri is doing most excellent work in collecting arranging and recording in concise and easily assimilable form some of the more..
About The Author
S. M. Natesa Sastri (1859–1906) was a polyglot scholar in eighteen languages and authored many books in Tamil Sanskrit and English. His scholarliness over Tamil and Sanskrit languages got him the title "Pandit .
His most popular works were his collections of Tamil folk tales. He published a four-volume collection of Tamil folk tales titled The Folklore of Southern India (1884–88). He believed that folklore was national literature and that it was "the most trustworthy manifestation of people s real thoughts and characteristics. Sastri s collections were based on Tamil versions of the folk tales drawn from his own memory and translated to English and addressed to non-Indian audiences.
ASIN : 818804332X
Publisher : Winsome Books India (1 August 2005); Winsome Book India
Language : English
Paperback : 250 pages
ISBN-10 : 9788188043323
ISBN-13 : 978-8188043323
Reading age : 7 years and up
Item Weight : 210g
Dimensions : 13.7 x 1.3 x 21.3 cm