Author: Das, Kunjabihari
Title: A Study of Orissan Folk-Lore
Description: Santiniketan, Visvabharati, 1953. boards. 24x16cm, viii, 183 pp. Recent binder's blind boards. Series: Visvabharati studies, 16.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Includes some selections in the original Oriya with English translations; Contents: Folk Tales; Ballads; Puchikhela and Children's Songs; Ploughman' s Songs; Fetish Gods and Goddesses; Karma Worship; Chaitighodanata (Horse- dancing in Chaitra); Dandanata; Chadak Puja; Pala; Patua Jatra and Nagajatra; The Vows, Fasts and Festivals; Short Comments on Miscellaneous Folk Songs and Dances; Popular Religion and Philosophy; A Brief Survey of Mass Literature in Orissa; Texts and Translations.

Keywords: Oriyan Folk Literature, Orissa, Language, Folklore, Oral Literary, Ethnology, Ethnography, India South Asia, Anthropology