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• W1589766616 abstract "Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke. By Sadhana Naithani. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xi + 328 pp. In 1996, I located the handwritten manuscripts of William Crooke's famed collection of the folktales of northern India the archive of the Folklore Society, (vii). So begins the preface to Sadhana Naithani s recent study and tale collection, Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke. Forty years and a very different cultural moment, Richard Dorson opened his preface to the seminal folkloric study, The British Folklorists: A History (London: Routledge, 1968), strikingly similar terms. This book began a long time ago, Dorson wrote, in the summer of 1948, when on a casual visit to my sister who lived London I stumbled across the library of The FoIkLo re Society (v). Whether it is intentional or not, Naithani's prefatory echo of her prestigious forerunner is revealing, both because it indicates the extent to which these two studies are working the same tradition, and because it reminds us, simultaneously, how far folklore studies has traveled the intervening years. On the one hand, this echo draws our attention to the fact that these two studies have similar objects view: both are works of scholarly detection which an archival discovery sparks a long and wide-ranging quest for information, both seek to contribute something new to our understanding of the history of folk-narrative collection, and both are, at least partially, works of literary biography that aim to reconstruct the lives of notable folklore scholars who had hitherto remained the shadows. Even as these parallels became apparent, however, it simultaneously becomes clear that both works, while pursuing similar objectives, do so with a very different cultural and political agenda. Dorson, writing at a time when folklore studies was struggling to be accepted as a serious academic subject, sought to justify it and embed it by celebrating the lives and works of its dominant progenitors. Naithani, by contrast, writing at a time which folklore studies no longer needs to justify itself, and at a time which the post colonial imperative to plumb imperial archives for their gaps and exclusions has become institutionally embedded, wants to discover, not what the dominant discourses of British folklore were, but what alternative discourses they have silenced, marginalized, or obscured. Although both of these works may, therefore, be said to mark major contributions to the field of folktale scholarship, they do so from very different perspectives, for while Dorson's is a work of scholarly constitution, Naithani's is a work of scholarly reconstitution-and indeed, as it transpires, restitution. The particular act of restitution that Naithani aims to effect Quest of Indian Folktales is of the reputation of the Indian scholar Ram Gharib Chaube, who assisted William Crooke his collection of 158 tales from the Northwestern provinces and Ou dh between 1892 and 1896, and who has, subsequently, been all but erased from memory. Chaube, Naithani shows, gathered the bulk of the tales Crooke's manuscript collection, translated them into his own distinctive English, and mediated them for Crooke by identifying the narrators and by offering a series of insightful and explanatory marginal annotations. return for this hard work, however, Crooke failed to acknowledge Chaube any of his published writings (15), leaving Chaube's role to be discovered by Naithani only because he signed the manuscript (perhaps anticipating his future obscurity) and, later, wrote a long letter to Crooke which he reflected upon their past friendship and requested Crooke's help obtaining a job. As was the case with so many of the Indian intellectuals who helped British collectors, it appears, Chaube could only be seen by Crooke as a native assistant, not as a professional equal. …" @default.
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