Book contents
- Frontmatter
- LIST OF THE COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- THE COLLECTOR'S APOLOGY
- THE NARRATOR'S NARRATIVE
- 1 PUNCHKIN
- 2 A FUNNY STORY
- 3 BRAVE SEVENTEE-BAI
- 4 TRUTH'S TRIUMPH
- 5 RAMA AND LUXMAN; OR, THE LEARNED OWL
- 6 LITTLE SURYA-BAI
- 7 THE WANDERINGS OF VICRAM MAHARAJAH
- 8 LESS INEQUALITY THAN MEN DEEM
- 9 PANCH-PHUL RANEE
- 10 HOW THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE WIND WENT OUT TO DINNER
- 11 SINGH-RAJAH, AND THE CUNNING LITTLE JACKALS
- 12 THE JACKAL, THE BARBER, AND THE BRAHMIN WHO HAD SEVEN DAUGHTERS
- 13 TIT FOR TAT
- 14 THE BRAHMIN, THE TIGER, AND THE SIX JUDGES
- 15 THE SELFISH SPARROW AND THE HOUSELESS CROWS
- 16 THE VALIANT CHATTEE-MAKER
- 17 THE RAKSHAS' PALACE
- 18 THE BLIND MAN, THE DEAF MAN, AND THE DONKEY
- 19 MUCHIE-LAL
- 20 CHUNDUN-RAJAH
- 21 SODEWA-BAI
- 22 CHANDRA'S VENGEANCE
- 23 HOW THE THREE CLEVER MEN OUTWITTED THE DEMONS
- 24 THE ALLIGATOR AND THE JACKAL
- NOTES
- Plate section
THE NARRATOR'S NARRATIVE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- LIST OF THE COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- THE COLLECTOR'S APOLOGY
- THE NARRATOR'S NARRATIVE
- 1 PUNCHKIN
- 2 A FUNNY STORY
- 3 BRAVE SEVENTEE-BAI
- 4 TRUTH'S TRIUMPH
- 5 RAMA AND LUXMAN; OR, THE LEARNED OWL
- 6 LITTLE SURYA-BAI
- 7 THE WANDERINGS OF VICRAM MAHARAJAH
- 8 LESS INEQUALITY THAN MEN DEEM
- 9 PANCH-PHUL RANEE
- 10 HOW THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE WIND WENT OUT TO DINNER
- 11 SINGH-RAJAH, AND THE CUNNING LITTLE JACKALS
- 12 THE JACKAL, THE BARBER, AND THE BRAHMIN WHO HAD SEVEN DAUGHTERS
- 13 TIT FOR TAT
- 14 THE BRAHMIN, THE TIGER, AND THE SIX JUDGES
- 15 THE SELFISH SPARROW AND THE HOUSELESS CROWS
- 16 THE VALIANT CHATTEE-MAKER
- 17 THE RAKSHAS' PALACE
- 18 THE BLIND MAN, THE DEAF MAN, AND THE DONKEY
- 19 MUCHIE-LAL
- 20 CHUNDUN-RAJAH
- 21 SODEWA-BAI
- 22 CHANDRA'S VENGEANCE
- 23 HOW THE THREE CLEVER MEN OUTWITTED THE DEMONS
- 24 THE ALLIGATOR AND THE JACKAL
- NOTES
- Plate section
Summary
My grandfather's family were of the Lingaet caste, and lived in Calicut; but they went and settled near Goa at the time the English were there. It was there my grandfather became a Christian. He and his wife, and all the family, became Christians at once, and when his father heard it he was very angry, and turned them all out of the house. There were very few Christians in those days. Now you see Christians everywhere, but then we were very proud to see one anywhere. My grandfather was Havildar in the English army—and when the English fought against Tippo Sahib, my grandmother followed him all through the war. She was a very tall, fine, handsome woman, and very strong; wherever the regiment marched she went, on, on, on, on, on (‘great deal hard work that old woman done’). Plenty stories my granny used to tell about Tippo and how Tippo was killed, and about Wellesley Sahib, and Monro Sahib, and Malcolm Sahib, and Elphinstone Sahib. Plenty things had that old woman heard and seen. Ah, he was a good man, Elphinstone Sahib! My granny used often to tell us how he would go down and say to the soldiers, “Baba, Baba, fight well. Win the battles, and each man shall have his cap full of money; and after the war is over I'll send every one of you to his own home.”
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- Old Deccan DaysOr, Hindoo Fairy Legends, Current in Southern India, pp. xxi - xxxviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1868