A. K. Ramanujan. Folktales from India. New York, Pantheon Books, 1991.

The latest contribution to Pantheon's "splendid folklore series" (Washing ton Post), Folktales from India is an enchanting collection of oral tales that have inspired the popular imagination of India for countless generations. Compiled from a vast array of sources, translated from twenty-two different languages of the subcontinent, these one hundred and ten tales are by turns harrowing and comic, sardonic and allegorical, mysterious and romantic