Posted on: 20 July 2011

Digital Rare Book :
Deccan Nursery Tales or Fairy Tales from the South
By Charles Augustus Kincaid
Illustrations by M.V. Dhurandhar
Published by Macmillan and Company, London - 1914


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These are stories of Marathi folklore .Most of the stories take place in a fictional town called "Atpat". During my childhood after reading these stories ,I always used to wonder about this Atpat Nagar and ask myself why everything happens only in Atpat nagar and no where else! Sometimes I feel young generation is missing all this fun and innocence of childhood story reading because of Cartoon Networks and computer games!!!

The princess almost invariably was called either Amrapali or Gulbakauli. The King had two or more wives and usually, only one would be his favorite. Then the rest was about lotuses and parrots seven mountains and seven seas.

Stories from Panchatantra always had message of good over evil . In Gujarati , there were series on Miyan Fuski which depicted Hindu-Muslin unity .