Caribbean Indian folktales
By: collected by Kumar Mahabir ; foreword by Vibert C. Cambridge ; illustrations by Angali Dabideen & Preddie Partap.
Contributors: Mahabir, Noor Kumar.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Chakra Publishing House
Published: 2005
Place of publication: San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9789769504929
Subjects: East Indians -- West Indies, British -- Folklore; Folklore -- West Indies, British; Tales -- West Indies, British; East Indians -- Guyana -- Folklore; Folklore -- Guyana; Tales -- Guyana; West Indies, British -- Social life and customs; Guyana -- Social life and customs
Genres: Folklore.
Description: " .....The book consists of a collection of 25 stories which have been passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth from India to the Caribbean over a century and a half." -- back cover.
Notes: "Written as a collector's item for personal pleasure and as a textbook for secondary schools"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xiv-xv).

Each tale appears in original dialect version, transcribed from tape recordings, and in standard English.