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Folk-Songs of Chhattisgarh

 
Verrier Elwin (Author)
Synopsis

In this volume Dr. Verrier Elwin has collected and translated 497 folk-songs from Chhattisgarh, that important but little-known country lying in the south-east of the Central Provinces of India. The ‘anthology’ is arranged to show how poetry dignifies and inspires with beauty every aspect of the Indian peasant’s life from the cradle to the grave.

In his comment, Mr. W.G. Archer, I.C.S., the authority on Uraon poetry and Santal law, says that ‘Verrier Elwin is to Indian poetry what Arthur Waley is to Chinese’, for in these poems he has gone far to reveal the Indian sensibility in some of its most truly indigenous and spontaneous forms. He add, Although much love poetry has been written in our time, I do not know of any which expresses a contemporary attitude quite so fully as Verrier Elwin’s translation, and concludes. These translations are a fusion of two sensibilities-the collective sensibility of certain Indian castes and tribes and the alert sensibility of a scholar-poet and it is because of this that they have given something new to contemporary English poetry.

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About the author

Verrier Elwin

Verrier Elwin (1902-64) was unquestionably the pioneering scholar of India's tribal peoples. His anthropological studies and popular books on tribal custom, art, myth, and folklore were pathbreaking both for anthropology and the awareness of cultural diversity in the subcontinent. An ardent advocate of the rights of the tribal peoples, Elwin was also, from 1954 to his death in 1964, an advisor on tribal affairs to the Government of India.

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Bibliographic information

Title Folk-Songs of Chhattisgarh
Author Verrier Elwin
Format Hardcover
Date published: 04.09.2018
Edition Reprint.
Publisher B.R. Rhythms
Language: English
isbn 9788188827763
length lxi+466p.