Folk Tales of Chhattisgarh, India Theophil H. Twente Signed Book, 1938

Description: Folk Tales of Chhattisgarh, India Hardcover Pictorial Cloth Covered Book - 1938Hand signed by Theophil H. Twente; In English and an Indian script Illustrated by Dorothy R. Fryson.Cover Design By Edward A. Parske.The pages are stitched into the binding; see pictures for detail.There is a Kings Kraft logo embossed on the back cover. There is writing and stamps in the book.Signature and script are signed in ink.1.00 top right corner is in ink.Library notes are in pencil.Stamped in book and on edge of book pages: The Colgate-Rochester Divinity School. Writing in front and back of book.62 Pages.Published in 1938 by: The BODONI PRESS, INC. North Tonawanda, N.Y. Printed in U.S.A.** Free shipping.DedicatedToBlind Simon MunshiWithout whose help this collectionof folk taleswould not have been possible Chhattisgarh is one of the four civil divisions of the Central Provinces and includes within its boundaries shree Districts of British territory and fourteen feudatory states. Its name is derived from thirty-six forts which alone time represented the glory of Chhattisgarh Rattan- pr. A hill system which partially surrounds it gives it the shape of a horseshoe, with the opening toward the east, Within this enclosure lies a plateau with a population of about 4,000,000. The people of Chhattisgarh belong for the most part to the lower castes and are illiterate, superstitious and shiftless. Yet much of their folklore, which like that of other countries is the embodiment of their ideals, indi- cates that they are longing for something better.

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