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Publication
Macmillan and Co (1894). Frontispiece, 4 plates, vignettes throughout.
Description
Short excerpt: Would you like to know how these stories are told? Come with me and you shall see. There! take my hand and do not be afraid for Prince Hassan's carpet is beneath your feet.
Original publication date
1894
Local notes
A collection of 43 Punjabi tales collected and recounted by the English writer Flora Annie Steel. Steel spent 22 years in India, chiefly in the Punjab. Rejecting the role of idle "mehmsahib" she became an educational reformer and an outspoken critic of the colonial government's failings. She became deeply interested the local language and folk-tales and worked to support Indian arts and crafts with Rudyard Kipling's father, John Lockwood Kipling.
The beautiful illustrations are by John Lockwood Kipling and Temple's notes provide helpful historical and cultural information.
Part of Macmillan’s Cranford series, decoratively bound with intricate gilt designs.
The beautiful illustrations are by John Lockwood Kipling and Temple's notes provide helpful historical and cultural information.
Part of Macmillan’s Cranford series, decoratively bound with intricate gilt designs.