ABSTRACT
With 600 signed, alphabetically organized articles covering the entirety of folklore in South Asia, this new resource includes countries and regions, ethnic groups, religious concepts and practices, artistic genres, holidays and traditions, and many other concepts.
A preface introduces the material, while a comprehensive index, cross-references, and black and white illustrations round out the work. The focus on south Asia includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, with short survey articles on Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, and various diaspora communities. This unique reference will be invaluable for collections serving students, scholars, and the general public.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |34 pages
A
entry |2 pages
Acrobatics
entry |7 pages
Afghanistan
entry |3 pages
Agricultural Development and Folklore, Sri Lanka
entry |1 pages
Akhyan
entry |2 pages
ĀL
entry |1 pages
Ālhā (Ālhā-Ūdal)
entry |2 pages
‘Alī
entry |1 pages
Ali Festival
entry |1 pages
Amīr Ḥamza
entry |2 pages
Ancestor Worship
entry |2 pages
Andhra Pradesh
entry |2 pages
Angạy
entry |2 pages
Animal Performances
entry |1 pages
Animals
entry |1 pages
Aṅkeḷiya
entry |2 pages
Aṇṇanmār Katai
entry |2 pages
‘Aql and Nafs
entry |2 pages
Aravān
entry |3 pages
Architecture, Afghanistan
entry |3 pages
Architecture, Bangladesh
entry |3 pages
Architecture, Bengal
entry |3 pages
Architecture, Domestic: India and Nepal
entry |1 pages
Art
entry |3 pages
Art, Tribal
entry |3 pages
Assam
entry |1 pages
Ataṇ
letter |54 pages
B
entry |2 pages
Baby Talk
entry |2 pages
Badala
entry |1 pages
Bait/Bayt
entry |2 pages
Baithak
entry |1 pages
Bake, Arnold Adriaan
entry |2 pages
Bakshi
entry |1 pages
Balanday
entry |2 pages
Balī Khelā
entry |3 pages
Ballad, Nepal
entry |4 pages
Balochistan: Oral Tradition
entry |2 pages
Bandāra Cults
entry |2 pages
Baṇgāṇī Mahābhārata
entry |2 pages
Baṇgāṇī Ball Games
entry |4 pages
Bangladesh
entry |2 pages
Bangles
entry |1 pages
Bārahmāsā
entry |3 pages
Bāul Song
entry |2 pages
Beads
entry |2 pages
Benfey, Theodor
entry |3 pages
Bhagavati Ritual Traditions of Kerala
entry |2 pages
Bhajan
entry |2 pages
Bhakti
entry |1 pages
Bhakti Saints
entry |2 pages
Bhānd Paṭhar
entry |2 pages
Bhāoẏāiẏā Song
entry |1 pages
Bhārat Līlā
entry |2 pages
Bhāṭiẏāli Song
entry |1 pages
Bhavāi
entry |1 pages
Bhopo
entry |2 pages
Bhūta
entry |3 pages
Bhūta Kōla
entry |1 pages
Bicār Gān
entry |3 pages
Bihar: India
entry |2 pages
Bihishtī Zēwar
entry |2 pages
Birbal
entry |2 pages
Birth Songs
entry |2 pages
Bow Song (Vil Pāṭṭu)
entry |4 pages
Brahui Folk Literature
entry |2 pages
Brass Bands
entry |2 pages
British Folklore (In South Asia)
entry |3 pages
British, Folklore About
entry |1 pages
Brown, William Norman
entry |3 pages
Buddhism and Buddhist Folklore
entry |3 pages
Buddhism, Sri Lanka
entry |2 pages
Buddhist Sacred Geography, Sri Lanka
entry |2 pages
Buffalo
entry |2 pages
Bull-Pulling Competitions
entry |1 pages
Burra Katha
entry |2 pages
Buzkashī
letter |43 pages
C
entry |1 pages
Cait Parab
entry |2 pages
Calendar Art
entry |3 pages
Calendrical Ceremonies and Rites
entry |2 pages
Candainī (Lorik-Candā)
entry |2 pages
Card Games
entry |2 pages
Carpets and Carpet Weaving
entry |2 pages
Cassettes
entry |4 pages
Caste and State, India and Nepal
entry |2 pages
Caste Mark (Bindi, Boṭṭu)
entry |2 pages
Caste Myths of Andhra Pradesh
entry |2 pages
Catholicism, Sri Lanka
entry |2 pages
Cavittu Nātakam
entry |2 pages
Central Himalayan States
entry |3 pages
Chahārbaytī
entry |2 pages
Chapbooks
entry |3 pages
Character Stereotypes
entry |2 pages
Chau
entry |2 pages
Chaube, Pandit Ram Gharib
entry |3 pages
Christianity, Kerala
entry |2 pages
Circumcision
entry |2 pages
Cockfighting
entry |3 pages
Colonialism and Folklore
entry |1 pages
Comedians, Jesters, and Clowns
entry |2 pages
Comic Books, India
entry |3 pages
Complaint
entry |2 pages
Conjuring Conjuring
entry |3 pages
Cosmology, Hindu
entry |2 pages
Courtship, Afghanistan
entry |2 pages
Cow
entry |3 pages
Craft
entry |4 pages
Crafts and Development, India
entry |1 pages
Credit System (Women's Private Banking in Rural India)
entry |1 pages
Crooke, William
letter |42 pages
D
entry |2 pages
Daha-Aṭa Sanniya
entry |1 pages
Dahe
entry |6 pages
Dance
entry |2 pages
Dance, Nepal
entry |2 pages
Dargāh
entry |1 pages
Dārikavadham
entry |2 pages
Darśan
entry |2 pages
Dāsara
entry |1 pages
Dāstān
entry |1 pages
Death Rituals
entry |2 pages
Dependent Performing Castes
entry |2 pages
Dēv
entry |1 pages
Devnārāyaṇ
entry |2 pages
Dhāmī
entry |2 pages
Ḍholā
entry |3 pages
Diaspora, Africa
entry |4 pages
Diaspora, Caribbean
entry |3 pages
Diaspora, Fiji and the South Pacific
entry |2 pages
Diaspora, North America
entry |3 pages
Diaspora, Southwest Indian Ocean
entry |2 pages
Diaspora, U.K
entry |3 pages
Dīvālī/Dīpāvalī
entry |2 pages
Divination
entry |2 pages
Divination, Balochi
entry |1 pages
Dohada (Pregnancy Cravings)
entry |1 pages
Dom
entry |2 pages
Dowry and Bridewealth
entry |2 pages
Draupadī
entry |4 pages
Dreams
entry |2 pages
Dress
entry |3 pages
Dress, Pakistan
entry |3 pages
Dṛṣṭi
letter |12 pages
E
entry |2 pages
Ellamma
entry |2 pages
Elwin, Verrier
entry |2 pages
Embroidery
entry |3 pages
Epic
entry |3 pages
Epic, Nepal
entry |3 pages
EPIC, Sri Lanka
entry |2 pages
EPIC, Tribal, Central India
entry |2 pages
Exorcism
letter |47 pages
F
entry |1 pages
Faience
entry |4 pages
Fairs and Festivals
entry |1 pages
Fate, Hindu
entry |2 pages
Fāṭima
entry |1 pages
Festival of St. Francis
entry |2 pages
Film Music
entry |3 pages
Film, Video, and Television Viewing: Nepal
entry |2 pages
Firewalking, Sri Lanka
entry |3 pages
Fish and Fishing
entry |2 pages
Floor Designs
entry |4 pages
Folk Art
entry |2 pages
Folk Art, Orissa
entry |3 pages
Folk Drama, Afghanistan
entry |2 pages
Folk Etymologies
entry |3 pages
Folk Literature
entry |2 pages
Folk Literature, Sinhalese
entry |6 pages
Folk Music
entry |3 pages
Folk Music, Nepal
entry |4 pages
Folk Painting
entry |1 pages
Folklorists
entry |3 pages
Folktale
entry |3 pages
Folktale, “Tale Type”
entry |2 pages
Folktale, Nepal
entry |5 pages
Food and Foodways
entry |3 pages
Foodways, Bangladesh
entry |2 pages
Foodways, Pakistan
entry |3 pages
Fortune-Tellers
entry |2 pages
Frere, Mary Eliza Isabella (1845–1911)
letter |41 pages
G
entry |1 pages
Gambhīrā
entry |1 pages
Games and Contests
entry |3 pages
Games and Contests, Bangladesh
entry |3 pages
Ganeśa
entry |2 pages
Gavarī
entry |2 pages
Gāzīr/Gājīr Gān
entry |6 pages
Gender and Folklore
entry |3 pages
Geomancy
entry |2 pages
Ghazal
entry |2 pages
Ghosts
entry |1 pages
Ghūl
entry |2 pages
Ginān
entry |1 pages
Girau
entry |2 pages
Glass
entry |2 pages
Goa
entry |2 pages
God-Boxes, Painted
entry |6 pages
Goddesses, Hindu
entry |4 pages
Goddesses, Place, and Identity in Nepal
entry |4 pages
Gods and Goddesses
entry |2 pages
Gondhaḷa
entry |2 pages
Gopī Cand
entry |2 pages
Gorava/Goramma
entry |2 pages
Govindevji, Temple of
entry |2 pages
Grierson, George A.
entry |1 pages
Gūgā
entry |2 pages
Gujarat
entry |3 pages
Gurav
entry |2 pages
Gūrū Nanak, Life Stories of
entry |1 pages
Gūrughlī
letter |14 pages
H
entry |2 pages
Ḥadīth
entry |2 pages
Ḥāl
entry |2 pages
Handloom Weaving, Bangladesh
entry |2 pages
Hanumān
entry |2 pages
Herders’ Field Calls
entry |2 pages
Heroes and Heroines
entry |2 pages
Hijrā (Transvestite) Performances
entry |1 pages
Himachal Pradesh
entry |1 pages
Hinduism
entry |2 pages
Hīr/Rānjhā
entry |2 pages
Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary
entry |2 pages
Holī
entry |1 pages
Hook-Swinging
entry |3 pages
Hospitality
entry |2 pages
Hot/Cold
entry |1 pages
Ḥujra
letter |7 pages
I
entry |1 pages
Ibex and Goat
entry |3 pages
Image Making, Metal
entry |1 pages
Imām Ḥusayn
entry |1 pages
India
entry |4 pages
Islam
letter |17 pages
J
entry |3 pages
Jain Folklore
entry |3 pages
Jainism
entry |2 pages
Jajmāni
entry |2 pages
Jallikkaṭṭu
entry |1 pages
Jāmdānī
entry |2 pages
Jārī Gān
entry |2 pages
Jātaka Tales
entry |2 pages
Jātrā/Yātrā
entry |2 pages
Jewelry and Adornment
entry |2 pages
Jewish Folklore
entry |2 pages
Jhumur Jātrā Drama
entry |3 pages
Jihād Poetry
entry |1 pages
Jinn
entry |2 pages
Judaism
entry |2 pages
Junjappa
letter |31 pages
K
entry |1 pages
Kāfī
entry |3 pages
Kalasha
entry |2 pages
Kalpa Sūtra
entry |2 pages
Kamsāle
entry |2 pages
Kāňthā
entry |2 pages
Karma
entry |6 pages
Karnataka
entry |1 pages
Kashmir
entry |2 pages
Kātama Rāju
entry |2 pages
Kataragama
entry |1 pages
Kathā
entry |2 pages
Kathak Dancers
entry |3 pages
Kathakaḷi
entry |2 pages
Kathāsaritsāgara
entry |3 pages
Kerala
entry |1 pages
Kerāmat
entry |2 pages
Kesar
entry |2 pages
Khvāja Khizr
entry |1 pages
Kīrtana
entry |2 pages
Kohombā Kankāriya
entry |4 pages
Kolam
entry |1 pages
Kordabbu
entry |2 pages
Kotahaluva Gedara
entry |2 pages
Koṭhārī, Komal
entry |3 pages
Krsna
letter |12 pages
L
entry |2 pages
Lālan Fakir
entry |1 pages
Laḷita
entry |2 pages
Lament
entry |2 pages
Landay
entry |2 pages
Lāvaṇī
entry |2 pages
Legend
entry |5 pages
Life Cycle Rituals
entry |3 pages
Life History and Personal Event Narrative
entry |1 pages
Literature
letter |65 pages
M
entry |1 pages
Mackenzie, Colin
entry |2 pages
Mādēśvara Epic
entry |2 pages
Madhya Pradesh and Chattīsgaṛh
entry |3 pages
Mahābhārata
entry |3 pages
Maharashtra
entry |2 pages
Mailāra/Mallanna/Khandobā
entry |2 pages
Majlis
entry |3 pages
Malang
entry |3 pages
Maldives
entry |2 pages
Malignant Spirits, Nepal
entry |1 pages
Mammā
entry |2 pages
Mānas Kathā
entry |2 pages
Mancala
entry |2 pages
Mandecculu
entry |2 pages
Maṅgalkāvya
entry |2 pages
Manteswamy
entry |2 pages
Mārphatī and Murśidī Songs
entry |1 pages
Māriamma
entry |3 pages
Marionettes
entry |2 pages
Marriage Ceremonies
entry |2 pages
Marsiya
entry |2 pages
Martial Art Traditions
entry |1 pages
Martyrdom
entry |2 pages
Masks
entry |2 pages
Masks, Sri Lanka
entry |2 pages
Mātam
entry |3 pages
Material Culture
entry |4 pages
Material Culture, Pakistan
entry |1 pages
Maulid
entry |2 pages
Medicine, Āyurveda
entry |2 pages
Melā
entry |5 pages
Metal and Metalworking
entry |3 pages
Metalwork, Bangladesh
entry |3 pages
Mithila Painting
entry |4 pages
Mosoues
entry |2 pages
Muhājir
entry |2 pages
Muḥarram
entry |2 pages
Mu‘Jizāt Kahānī
entry |1 pages
Mukhos Nāc
entry |1 pages
Mullā Naṣruddīn
entry |2 pages
Munazira
entry |3 pages
Museums and Folklore, Bangladesh
entry |2 pages
Mushā‘Ira, Urdu
entry |1 pages
Music
entry |3 pages
Muslim Folklore and Folklife
entry |5 pages
Muslim Folklore, Sri Lanka
entry |2 pages
Mutiyēttu
entry |2 pages
Myth
entry |1 pages
Mythology, Hindu
letter |25 pages
N
entry |2 pages
Nācā
entry |2 pages
Nāga
entry |2 pages
Nala and Damayanti
entry |2 pages
Names and Naming Practices, Balochistan
entry |2 pages
Naming Ceremonies
entry |2 pages
Narrative Classification
entry |3 pages
Narrative Scroll Painting
entry |3 pages
Naṭēśa śāstri, Pandit Sangēndi Mahālinga
entry |2 pages
Nāth
entry |2 pages
Nationalism and Folklore
entry |1 pages
Nauḥa
entry |2 pages
Nauṭaṅkī
entry |2 pages
Navānna/Nabānna
entry |2 pages
Navarātri
entry |4 pages
Nepal
entry |4 pages
North-West Frontier Province
entry |2 pages
Numerology
letter |4 pages
O
entry |1 pages
Oggu Katha
entry |1 pages
Ōnam
entry |3 pages
Ovī
letter |44 pages
P
entry |1 pages
Pābūjī
entry |2 pages
Pāddana
entry |1 pages
Painting
entry |1 pages
Pakistan
entry |2 pages
Pāmpin Tullal
entry |3 pages
Pañcatantra
entry |1 pages
Panch Pīr
entry |2 pages
Pāndav Līlā
entry |2 pages
Par
entry |1 pages
Parī
entry |2 pages
Parsi Folklore
entry |2 pages
Parsiism
entry |2 pages
Pashtūnwalī
entry |2 pages
Pata Citra
entry |2 pages
Pathkabitā
entry |1 pages
Pattini
entry |2 pages
Penzer, Norman Mosley
entry |2 pages
Pērantālu
entry |4 pages
Performance Studies
entry |2 pages
Person
entry |4 pages
Pilgrimage
entry |2 pages
Pīr
entry |1 pages
Pirit
entry |2 pages
Ponkal
entry |2 pages
Popular Music
entry |3 pages
Pottery
entry |3 pages
Pottery, Bangladesh
entry |2 pages
Pottery, Sri Lanka
entry |2 pages
Prahlāda Nātak
entry |2 pages
Processions
entry |3 pages
Professional Performers
entry |3 pages
Proverbs
entry |2 pages
Puberty Rituals
entry |3 pages
Pūjā
entry |4 pages
Punjab
entry |3 pages
Purāna
entry |1 pages
Purdah
letter |4 pages
Q
entry |1 pages
Qalandar
entry |2 pages
Qawwālī
entry |2 pages
Qiṣṣa
entry |2 pages
Quilting and Piecing
letter |19 pages
R
entry |3 pages
Rajasthan
entry |2 pages
Rām Līlā
entry |1 pages
Rāma
entry |2 pages
Ramanujan, A. K
entry |3 pages
Rāmāyana
entry |2 pages
Rāmāyaṇa, TV Production
entry |2 pages
Ramazān/Ramadan
entry |2 pages
Rāmdev
entry |1 pages
Rāsa Līlā
entry |1 pages
Ratha Jātrā
entry |2 pages
Recycling
entry |3 pages
Refugee Lore
entry |2 pages
Religion
entry |2 pages
Riddle, Balochi
entry |2 pages
Riddle, Nepal
entry |1 pages
Rituals
entry |2 pages
Rock Paintings, India
entry |2 pages
Roma (Gypsy)
letter |64 pages
S
entry |2 pages
Sacred Geography
entry |3 pages
Sacred Geography, Afghanistan
entry |2 pages
Sacred Places
entry |3 pages
Sacrifice
entry |1 pages
Sadhu
entry |3 pages
Saints
entry |3 pages
Saints, Christian, Kerala
entry |2 pages
Śākta Song
entry |2 pages
Śamī
entry |2 pages
Satī
entry |2 pages
Satya Nārāyaṇa Vrat Kathā
entry |2 pages
Satya Pīr
entry |3 pages
Self-Sacrifice
entry |2 pages
Sen, Dinesh Chandra
entry |2 pages
Shadow Puppetry
entry |3 pages
Shamanism, Islam
entry |2 pages
Shamanism, Nepal
entry |4 pages
Shrines, Hindu
entry |1 pages
Shrines, Muslim
entry |3 pages
Sikh Folklore
entry |4 pages
Sikhism
entry |2 pages
Silok
entry |1 pages
Silsila
entry |5 pages
Sindh
entry |2 pages
Siri
entry |2 pages
Sītalā
entry |4 pages
Śiva
entry |2 pages
Skanda (Kataragama)
entry |1 pages
Sokari
entry |1 pages
Song
entry |4 pages
Song, Bengal
entry |3 pages
Song, Nepal
entry |2 pages
Song, Sinhala
entry |3 pages
Spirit Possession and Mediumship
entry |4 pages
Sri Lanka, Sinhala
entry |2 pages
Sri Lanka, Tamil
entry |2 pages
Sri Pada
entry |2 pages
Story Literature, Persian
entry |2 pages
Story Literature, Sanskrit
entry |2 pages
Stūpa
entry |2 pages
Sufi Folk Poetry
entry |1 pages
Supernatural Beings
entry |2 pages
Supernatural Beings, Nepal
entry |2 pages
Swadeshi
entry |3 pages
Syncretism
letter |32 pages
T
entry |1 pages
Ta'awīz
entry |1 pages
Tabārrak
entry |2 pages
Tagore, Rabindranath
entry |2 pages
Tamāśa
entry |3 pages
Tamil Nadu
entry |2 pages
Tarannum
entry |2 pages
Tattooing
entry |2 pages
Ta'ziya
entry |2 pages
Tējaji
entry |1 pages
Terukkūttu
entry |1 pages
Teyyam
entry |3 pages
Theater and Drama
entry |3 pages
Theater and Drama, Sri Lanka
entry |1 pages
Thurston, Edgar
entry |4 pages
Tibet
entry |2 pages
Tij Songs
entry |2 pages
Tiles and Tile Making, Terra-Cotta
entry |1 pages
Tiruvātira
entry |1 pages
Tōrram
entry |3 pages
Toys
entry |2 pages
Tribal Communities, Northeast India
entry |3 pages
Tribal Communities, Southern India
entry |3 pages
Tribal Folklore, Central India
entry |3 pages
Tribal Music, Nilgiris
entry |2 pages
Tribalism and Tribal Identity: the Bhīls of Western Central India
entry |2 pages
Tukkā
entry |1 pages
Tulsi (Basil)
entry |2 pages
Turmeric
letter |4 pages
U
entry |1 pages
Ukhān
entry |2 pages
‘Urs
entry |3 pages
Uttar Pradesh
letter |8 pages
V
entry |1 pages
Vāghyā/Muraḷī
entry |1 pages
Veddas [Văddo]
entry |3 pages
Vehicle Painting
entry |2 pages
Verbal Dueling
entry |2 pages
Vessantara
entry |2 pages
Vīthi Nāṭakam
entry |1 pages
Vrat Kathā
entry |2 pages
Vyās
letter |13 pages
W
entry |2 pages
Wataṇḍāri System
entry |1 pages
Water Lore
entry |2 pages
Wedding Songs
entry |2 pages
Wedding Videos
entry |3 pages
West Bengal
entry |2 pages
Witches and Sorcerers
entry |2 pages
Witches, Nepal
entry |2 pages
Women's Songs
entry |5 pages
Worship
letter |3 pages
Y
entry |2 pages
Yakṣagāna
entry |2 pages
Yaksi
entry |1 pages
Yātrā
letter |1 pages
Z
entry |1 pages
Ziyārat
