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Author(s): Sadhana Naithani
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India / Folklore
of Indian
and Cultural Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru late nineteenth century. Archived as part
University, New Delhi. She is author of of the collection of William Crooke, a
several research articles on colonialism well-known folklorist and British colo-
and folklore, and editor of Folktales from nial official, the tales were actually col-
Northern India. lected, selected, and translated by a certain
Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube. In 1996,
“When Ram Gharib Chaube met William Crooke, the civil In Quest
Folktales
Sadhana Naithani discovered this un-
servant had scholarly aspirations, and the young Ram Gharib published collection in the archive of the
Chaube had yet-unused scholarly skills. They held the same
of Indian Folklore Society, London. Since then, she
academic degree—Bachelor of Arts. Behind this small coin- Folktales has uncovered the identity of the myste-
cidence lay forces of global history and trade. Their respec- rious Chaube and the details of his col-
laboration with the famous folklorist. In
tive alma maters, Presidency College in Calcutta and Trinity
an extensive four-chapter introduction,
College in Dublin, were separated by thousands of miles, but
Naithani describes Chaube’s relationship
were part of the same colonial education system. Against the to Crooke and the essential role he played
backdrop of this coincidence began an association which was in Crooke’s work, as both a native infor-
to give a new perspective to colonial anthropology and de- mant and a trained scholar. By unearth-
termine the patterns of their professional and personal lives. ing the fragmented story of Chaube’s life,
. . .” —From Chapter One Pandit Ram Naithani gives voice to a new identity
of an Indian folklore scholar in colonial
India.
INDIANA and
tion reveal the complexity of the colonial
intellectual world and problematize our
University Press own views of folklore in a postcolonial
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In Quest of Indian Folktales
In Quest of Indian Folktales
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Contents
Preface • vii
Acknowledgments • ix
arship and “the central ¤gure in Anglo-Indian folklore relations” (Dorson 1968,
341, 346), organized a mammoth collection of the oral narratives in the present
north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in the late nineteenth century. He published
some of these in the Indian Antiquary and in North Indian Notes and Queries. It
has, however, remained unclear why they were not published as a separate volume,
or how they were gathered and how they compare with other colonial collections
of Indian folklore. The manuscripts answer these questions and reveal Pandit Ram
Gharib Chaube—a folklore scholar, collector, and translator of colonial India who
has remained anonymous and unacknowledged for one hundred years. He has been
mentioned, if at all, only as an assistant in Crooke’s ethnographic writings (Amin
1989, Raheja 1996). Chaube’s rendering of hundreds of Indian folktales in English
de¤es existing notions of a colonial assistant and proposes a new identity and voice:
that of an Indian folklore scholar in colonial India. The fragmented story of his life
epitomizes the complexities of colonial scholarly relationships.
The manuscripts led me from colonial folklore scholarship to the relationship
between Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke. The manuscripts and
the William Crooke Papers re®ected an intellectual intensity that could not have
left other parts of Chaube’s and Crooke’s lives untouched. Their lives are spread
across the continents: Crooke spent twenty-¤ve years in India, and Pandit Chaube
has spent a century in archives in London. From manuscripts to the story of real
lives written in letters, in diaries, and in the memories of descendants, that un-
known, unprecedented, and as yet unparalleled narrative of the association of a
British and an Indian scholar has emerged.
Sadhana Naithani
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi
October 2003
viii
Acknowledgments
One of the readers to whom Indiana University Press sent the manuscript of this
book called it a piece of “scholarly detective work,” accurately characterizing the
research process, which involved suspense and revelation. While thanking the
reader for the comment, I must say that the choice to carry out such work was not
always mine; matters demanded it. The help of academic institutions, colleagues,
and friends made it possible to connect the missing links, and I wish to thank them
all. In 1996 the Folklore Society gave me permission to work on the folktale
manuscripts, and in the course of my research extended help to me at every stage
of the work. I am thankful to Dr. Juliette Woods, Jean Tsushima, Eddie Cass, and
Jennifer Westwood for the Society’s decision to support me in photocopying the
materials, in searching for William Crooke’s descendants and for photographs of
him, and in meeting with the Crooke family. I thank Caroline Oates for support
in the library and her active interest in my research.
Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube became palpable for me in Gopalpur, which I
visited in the winter of 1998. Gopalpur, Gola, in the district of Gorakhpur, was in
Chaube’s time the estate of the raja of Gopalpur. Many residents of the village
talked with me, helped locate Chaube’s house (now belonging to another family),
and con¤rmed the scanty details I knew of his family. I thank them not only for
their time and response, but also for their energizing curiosity about my research.
Though I could not learn much on this trip, the little village had more surprises.
Upon my return to Delhi I found two letters waiting, both from Gopalpur, both
from Girish Chand Dubey, who wrote that he had conducted research himself on
Chaube after my visit. Dubey drew Chaube’s family tree and gave me a systematic
explanation of some of the most important biographical links. It is with immense
gratitude that I thank Girish Chand Dubey for his completely voluntary and in-
valuable contribution.
Dr. William Crooke is a well-known scholar, but his unpublished collection
of Indian folktales was a new matter. The period of a century was long enough to
disconnect the man from his scholarship. Helping me to understand interconnec-
tions, William Crooke’s grandsons Hugh and Patrick Crooke shared personal
memories with me on several occasions. I spoke with Hugh Crooke by telephone
for the ¤rst time in August 1999, and the conversation lasted more than an hour.
Acknowledgments
He spoke and wrote to me subsequently and also arranged for new slides and pho-
tographs to be made from the old ones he provided. We would have met in Can-
terbury in 2001, but his wife was suddenly taken ill, and he could not come. In-
stead, Patrick Crooke met me in Canterbury in the house of his sister-in-law,
Mary Crooke (the widow of a third brother), and showed me the contents of a
trunk left from their grandfather’s time, which included the CIE medal awarded
to William Crooke. He shared with me family memories and also talked about
William Crooke’s brother, Sir Warren Crooke-Lawless, who probably played a
small role in the Chaube-Crooke story in 1901 and 1902. Patrick Crooke also
spoke about his own experience in India, which he had visited as a UN of¤cial.
Our meeting lasted the whole afternoon, ending with tea, that bittersweet bond of
Indo-British history. I thank Mary Crooke for hosting the meeting in her house
and Hugh and Patrick for their frankness in matters connected to their grand-
father, which in®uenced my understanding of William Crooke as a person. They
also introduced the personality of their grandmother, Alice, who has otherwise
been missing from research on William Crooke.
The Charles Wallace (India) Trust and the British Council facilitated my
research in London with two grants, in 1996 and 2001. I thank the Trust and
Dr. Frank Taylor for their timely support. The Royal Anthropological Institute in
London granted me special permission to access the William Crooke Papers in
1999 and 2001, and I thank the Institute and its archivist, Beverly Emery, for this.
I thank the staff of the India Of¤ce and Records Library for their ef¤ciency and
friendliness, which were often a balmy contrast to many painful discoveries in the
¤les and papers delivered to my desk. I also thank Rudra Vijai Singh and Anand
Mahendra for their help and care with computer matters.
Many of my insights and articulations emerged in conversation. Professors
Anil Bhatti, K. N. Pannikar, Margaret Mills, and Mary Ellen Brown have dis-
cussed my research and writing with me at various stages. I have learnt much from
them and shall always be thankful for their comments and suggestions. I thank
Sudheer for drawing my attention to many issues of modern Indian history. I have
been encouraged by Professors Margaret Mackay, Gerald Porter, Kirin Narayan,
and Barbro Klein, and by the late Bo Nilsson. In 1999, the American Folklore
Society invited me to its annual meeting in Memphis, Tennessee. I had just com-
pleted the ¤rst draft of this book, and the AFS gave me the opportunity to present
my research to the folklorists’ community before offering it for publication. For this
I thank the AFS and especially Professor Regina Bendix. I thank Dr. Leela Prasad
for inviting me to present my research at the 1999 South Asian Studies Conference
at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
In India, while I was doing research in the Uttar Pradesh Regional Archives
in Lucknow, my mother Kamla and cousin Manish took great care of me, and in
Gorakhpur, Bobby and Rekha. My father, Jagdish Prasad Naithani, accompanied
me to Gorakhpur and from there on to Gopalpur, and proved to be a wonderful
research associate. Indeed, this trip would not have been possible without him.
x
Acknowledgments
I thank Kamini Prakash and Philip and Judith Woods for their hospitality in
London.
Michael Lundell at Indiana University Press has been very responsive from
the beginning and patient with my impatience during the production of this book.
Richard Higgins helped me actively in the course of editing. Shoshanna Green has
made the text neat and Jane Lyle has organized it all. It has been a pleasure work-
ing with them and I thank the production team at Indiana University Press heartily.
The manuscripts that I ¤rst saw in 1996 took almost complete hold of my
mind for many years, and I have tried to understand, research, and present them in
a manner that makes them accessible to both scholars and general readers. I am
responsible for any incompatibility with the original manuscripts and errors of
judgment.
xi
Part I
The Quest
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William Crooke (1848–1923) in his doctoral robe. Courtesy the Crooke family, espe-
cially Hugh Crooke, Pat Crooke (grandsons), and Roland Crooke (great grandson and son
of the late John Crooke, who kept the library of the late Dr. William Crooke for years with
pride).
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