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The idea of writing these tales occurred to me while reading a volume of short stories by my uncle, Sir
Rabindranath Tagore; but as I have none of his inventive genius, I set about collecting folk-tales and putting them into an English garb; and the tales contained in the following pages were told to
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and appeared in libraries around the world shortly after its publication. The book brought
Bengali folktales to the attention of English-speaking folklorists around the world, who used it as a source in their comparative work, including new forms of computer-aided study. Her stories have been
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This is a collection of fairy-stories, fables, and folklore which may take a good place among the numerous books of this kind that now come to us from India. If the
English is the unaided work of Sir Rabindranath Tagore's niece, it is a remarkable achievement; little
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contains twenty-eight folktales, gathered by
Mukhopadhyay herself, some from family servants. Her prefatory note to the book describes her inspiration and process:
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me by various illiterate village folks, and not a few by a blind man still in my service, with a retentive memory, and a great capacity for telling a story.
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