{"product_id":"2026200015999-secondhand-tales-of-the-punjab-told-by-the-people","title":"Tales Of The Punjab: Told By The People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the sun-baked plains and ancient villages of the Punjab comes a treasury of oral tradition, alive with tricksters, heroes, spirits, and star-crossed lovers — Tales of the Punjab: Told by the People is Flora Annie Steel's landmark collection of folklore gathered directly from the people of the region during her years living in colonial India. Steel, a prolific chronicler of Indian life, presents these stories with an ethnographer's ear and a storyteller's heart, capturing the rhythms of a rich oral culture that had never before been so systematically preserved for a wider audience. Scholarly notes by R.C. Temple anchor the collection in its cultural and historical context, while David Gentleman's illustrations bring the world of the Punjab vividly to life on the page.\n\nThis collection stands as a vital document of South Asian folk tradition, sitting alongside the great nineteenth-century folklore anthologies of Jacobs and the Brothers Grimm in its ambition and scope. Steel's prose carries both the warmth of a gifted narrator and the precision of an acute observer, refusing to sentimentalise the culture she so clearly admired. Rich with moral complexity, humour, and pathos, these tales reveal a civilisation's deepest values and oldest fears — and leave the reader wondering just how many more such stories were lost to the silence of unrecorded history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342773002459,"sku":"2026200015999-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ade4e9e3-a5b4-4868-8729-2052de4c5403.png?v=1790049032","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015999-secondhand-tales-of-the-punjab-told-by-the-people","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}