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SPECIMENS OF THE ORAL LITERATURE OF MIDDLE INDIA -- FOLK-SONGS OF CHHATTISGARH VERRIER ELWIN D.Sc.(OxoN) WITH A COMMENT BY W. G. ARCHER / "t~~ · . m....=....r. ti 19v lNDIAN 'RANCH ,,.,1..1; .. J..,..,1 $.,._,._ -- - -- - INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 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 po.etry 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.CS., the authority on Uraon poetry and Santai 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 fMms.' He adds, '.Although much love poetry has been written in our time, I do not know of any which expresses a contemporary attitude quite so folly as Verrier Elwin's translations', 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 sd1olar-poet and it is because of this that they have given something new to contemporary English poetry.' FOLK-SONGS OF CHHATTISGARH • Also by Verrier Elwi1i GENERAL Lea'Ues f1om the Jungle (MURRAY) The Abo1'iginals (o.u.P.) NOVELS Phulmat of the Hills (MuRR.~Y) A Cloud that's D1agoniSh (MURRAY) MONOGRAPHS The Baiga {MURRAY) The Agaria (o.u.P.) Ma1ia Mu1de1' and Suicide (o.u.P.) Folk-Tales of Maha.koshal (o.u.P.) The Muria and thei1 Ghotul (o.u.P.) In the press Myths of Middle India (o.u.P.) In tke press WITH SHAMRAO HIVA LE Songs of the Forest & (ALLEN UNWIN) Folk-Songs of the Maikal Hills (o.u.P.) I ' • OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS a.c. 4 AMBN HOUSB, LONDON, &DINBURGH GLASGOW NBW YORK TORONTO MKLBOURNB CAPETOWN 5 4 3 8 7 7 80MBAY CALCUtTA MADRAS GEOf·l.-REY CUMBERLEGE PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY FIRST PUBLISHED 1946 r- · -- I> ./ · ·1 - . l \ # , \ "-....., .. ,._ : .... -z (. _\ ~.·;-· ·1 I - . \ ···_.. • ' - -. ' .J . 0 ~ \ / \ \ .. . I.._':' ••••• ,,.· ) ••••• ~- w •• .·..·. .·. .~...- • - - - ..... • .• .. .. ... ... . - . . - - . - . . - .. .. . . - • - .. • . . . • INDIANA UNIVERSITY Ll~RA~JES BLOOMINGTON • PRINTED IN INDIA AT THB DIOCESAN PRESS, MA.t>RAS, AND PUBLISHED FOR 1 'MAN IN INDIA BY GBOF'P'RBY CUMBKRLIOS CJ.ff. 5) Jo-6-46-C6675 (P.l.C. NO. MS. DATBD TO SAROJINI NAIDU IN AFFECTION AND ADMIRATION 0 I '~1 ~ -...__ "" ' l ' I ,... ... . ' . •• Men, patterns of moving d'ust, loving those familiar Limbs learned to think lovely, curves so tenderly Shaped to receive and give, Closed their long eyes., their thighs cooled in the old Tribal water and cooled their dreams in unending Memory, endtess years. Dayb'reak FREDERIC PROKOSCH : CONTENTS w. G. • COMMENT BY ARCHBR XI • • • • • • ••• ••• • INTRODUCTION XXXIX • • • • • • • • • THE BEGINNING OF LIFE • • • ••• •••. •••. I • PREGNANCY SoNGS 3 • • • • • • ••• • • • DELIVERY SONGS 7 • • • ••• • • • ••• .. A CHHOHAR MANGA L SoNG IO •. • •• ••• CRADLE SONGS II ••• • •• • • • • •• IJ TA1TOOING SoNGS • • • • • • • • • ••• SONGS OP THB MENARCHE 15 • • • • • • • •• ••• -· LOVE AND THE APPROACH TO MARRIAGE 17 •••. . THE NAWRE OF LOVE 19 • • • • • • • • • ••• 27 ASSIGNATION • • • • • • • • • • • • ••• DaBAMs 33 • • • • • • • • •. • • •. .• ••. • BEAUTY 35 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • HAIR 45 • • •. • • • ••• ••• • • • THE DIAMOND 49 • • • • • • • • • • • • ••• THE HUNCHBACK 50 • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• 52 THE DANCING HORSE • • • • • • •••. ••• • .. THE KITE ... 53 • • •. • • •. • • • •• 4!. • THE CLOUD 54 • • • • • •. ••• •••. ••• • .. Tm . BBB SS • • •. • ••• ••• ••• .. • • THB SPIDER " 51 • • • ••• ••• ••• • • • •. . • Te:a EARTH 58 • • • • ••. • • • • • •. • • ~ THB LAMP 59 • • • • • • • •• • • • •••. • • • LovE 6o GoLDBN • • • • • • ••• • • • ••• 63 MARRIAGE • • • • • •. • • • • • •. • • • MARRIAGE SoNGS 6~ • • • • • • • • • ••• ' KAllAR 68 MARRIAGE SoNGS • • • ••• • • • ••• . . BHUNJIA MARRIAGE SoNGS 77 • • • •. • • • • • • .. PANKA BIRAHA 78 •. • • •. • • • • • • • • • GoND BIRAHA 79 • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • 8o GAWAN • • • • • • • • • ••• ••• ••• CONTENTS Vlll 83 HUSBAND AND WIFE • • • • • • • • • • • • Nsw 85 THB BRIDE • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • 89 RIDDLES • • • • • • • • • • • • ••• go THE BARREN WIFE • • • • • • • •• •• • THE IMPOTENT HUSBAND 91 . • • • • • • • •• ••• THE JEALOUS HUSBAND 93 • • • • • • • • • • • • POLYGAMY ..• 95 • • • • • • • • • • • • DEWAR AND BHAUJI 97 • • • • •• • • • • • • LIFE IN THE FARM 99 • • • • • • • • • •• • .. SONGS ABOUT GRAIN IOI ' • • • • • • • • • A PADKI WEEDING SONG 105 • • • • • • • • • ••• A 1o6 HALBA WEEDING SoNG • • • • • • • • • ••• A REAPING SoNG •. • 112 • • • • • • • •• ••• SONGS OF THE THRESHING-FLOOR 113 • • • • •• • • • SONGS OF THE HUSKER, BROOM AND FAN 114 • • • ••• SONGS OF THE GRINDSTONE ••• 119 • • • • • • •• • A SONG OF SELLING VEGETABLES J22 • • • • • • ••• A CHURNING SONG 123 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • A WEAVING SONG 124 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .. SEASONAL SoNGS 125 •. • • • • • • ••• LIFE IN THE WOODS . . . 131 • • • • • • ••• HuNnNG SONGS • • •. • • • • • • • •• .. •. 133 SONGS ABOUT BIRDS • • • • • • • • • ••• - . . FISHING SONGS •. • •• • • • ••• • • • THE HUMOUR OF ANIMALS • • • • • • ••• POLITICS AND SOCIETY 1 55 ••• • • • • •• • • • POLITICAL SONGS 157 • • • • • • • • • • • • THE WAR OF 193g-45 • • • • • • • • • ••• 15~ THB SOLDIER ON LEAVE 161 • • • • • • • • • • • • THB LAND ••• 162 . • • • • • • • ••. • •• THB INSPECTOR 163 ••• • • • • • • • • • • • • .. FAMINE SONGS 164 • • • •. • • • • •• • • • SONGS ABOUT EACll OTHER ... 16g • • • • • • • •• THE DANCE . . . I;· J • • • • • • •• • • •• KARMA SONGS ••• • • • •• • • • • • • • 1-i :l SUA SONGS ••• • • • • • • • • • • • • A ff ALBA SUA SONG ••• ••• • • • • ••
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