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About the Book:
Rajasthan continues to fascinate the world for many reasons. Some of the more
obvious ones include its colours, its music and dance, its venerable history,
its forts, fortifications, palaces, step-wells and old towns, and its rich textile
tradition. Rajasthan also brings to mind the vast tracts of golden desert to
its north-west and west, juxtaposed by the scattered green and dust-mantle clad
valleys, plains and hillsof its south-east and east, with their rivers and rivulets
and lakes. Rajasthan is also famed for its rich oral and written traditions,
drawn from mythology and religious tales as much as from the history of the
area. The oral and written traditions are sometimes coloured by the blood of
battles, sometimes romantic with the folk-remembered tales of Moomal, Dhola
and Maru, Nihal-de, tales of Moomal, Dhola and Maru, Nihal-de, and often based
on real-life tales of sacrifice and duty of valourous men and women like Maharana
Pratap, Prithviraj Chauhan, Jaimal, Patta, Gora, Badal, Panna-dhai, Achaldas
Khinchi, Durgadas Rathore and countless ordinary citizens. Dipping into this
rich heritage, this book brings to its readers a collection of short stories
from Rajasthan. These are based on real people and events, but are somewhat
fictionalised in the narration. The nine Rajasthani tales in this book are but
a fraction of the amazing legacy of Rajasthan.
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