Tales -- India books

The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story

active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

Folklore of the Santal Parganas

Cecil Henry Bompas

Cecil Henry Bompas’s Folklore of the Santal Parganas is a scholarly collection of Santal tales, drawn from…

Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The work is a collection of Hindu fairy tales framed around the legendary king Vikramaditya, whom the preface…

Tales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern India

Cleeve, Lucas; Sastri, Pandit Natesa

Georgiana Kingscote’s Tales of the Sun presents a curated collection of Southern Indian folklore, assembled…

Indian Fairy Tales

The Baitâl Pachchisi; Or, The Twenty-Five Tales of a Sprite Translated From the Hindi Text of Dr. Duncan Forbes

Platts, John T. (John Thompson); Lallu Lal; Vila, Mazhar Ali Khan, active 1805

Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Simla Village Tales; Or, Folk Tales from the Himalayas

Alice Dracott

Hindoo Tales; Or, the Adventures of Ten Princes

active 7th century Dandin

Deccan Nursery Tales; or, Fairy Tales from the South

C. A. Kincaid

Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit

Santal folk tales

A. Campbell

Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people

Cornelia Sorabji

Twenty-Two Goblins

The White Elephant, and Other Tales From India

Georgene Faulkner

Twenty-Two Goblins. Translated from the Sanskrit