Folk-Tales of Kashmir by Rev. J. Hinton Knowles
A collection of the stories Kashmiris told one another in the 1880s: tales of kings and viziers, clever peasants, holy men, jinns and talking animals, taken down by a missionary from Kashmiri storytellers and translated into English with notes on local customs and beliefs.
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About this book
Knowles was a missionary of the Church Missionary Society in Srinagar who learnt Kashmiri well enough to compile a dictionary of its proverbs. He collected these stories from Kashmiri narrators, Hindu and Muslim, and translated them into English.
His footnotes explain the customs, sayings and beliefs the stories take for granted, which makes the book a record of everyday Kashmiri life and imagination as well as an anthology of tales.
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