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Soso Tham (1873-1940), the acknowledged poet laureate of the Khasis of northeastern India, was one of the first writers to give written poetic form to the rich oral tradition of his people. Poet of landscape, myth and memory, Soso Tham paid rich and poignant tribute to his tribe in his masterpiece The Old Days of the Khasis. Janet Hujon's vibrant new translation presents the English reader with Tham's long poem, which keeps a rich cultural tradition of the Khasi people alive through its retelling of old narratives and acts as a cultural signpost for their literary identity. This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Indian literature and culture and in the interplay between oral traditions and written literary forms.

Light and darkness. --- Khasi (Indic people) --- Bhoi-Khasi (Indic people) --- Cherranpunji (Indic people) --- Kahasi (Indic people) --- Khasa (Indic people) --- Khashi (Indic people) --- Khasia (Indic people) --- Khasis --- Khasiyas (Indic people) --- Khassee (Indic people) --- Khuchia (Indic people) --- Kyi (Indic people) --- Lngngam (Indic people) --- Lyngam (Indic people) --- Lynngam (Indic people) --- Nongtung (Indic people) --- Ethnology --- Darkness and light --- Polarity --- long poem --- khasi --- soso tham --- northeastern india --- poetry --- Fruit --- God --- Khasi people

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Beṭṭa Kurumba is a Dravidian language spoken in the Nilgiri and Waynad Hills of India. Annotated Texts in Beṭṭa Kurumba presents folktales and dialogues in this language, together with a grammatical sketch and a glossary. These interlinearised texts provide rich data for linguistic analysis, as well as some of the earliest published cultural information about a highly understudied ethnic group. The cultural information is presented, for the most part, by the Beṭṭa Kurumbas themselves, who speak in their own native language about aspects of their lifestyle, spiritual beliefs, and social organization into clans.

Kurumba language --- Legends --- Kurumba (Indic people) --- Dialogues, Karumba. --- Alemāri Kuruba (Indic people) --- Kadu Kurumba (Indic people) --- Korambar (Indic people) --- Kuramwari (Indic people) --- Kuruba (Indic people) --- Kurumar (Indic people) --- Kurumban (Indic people) --- Kurumbar (Indic people) --- Kurumbas --- Kurumwari (Indic people) --- Mullukurumba (Indic people) --- Ethnology --- Tibeto-Burman peoples --- Cholanaickan (Indic people) --- Folk tales --- Traditions --- Urban legends --- Folklore --- Deforo language --- Foulse language --- Fulse language --- Koromfe language --- Kouroumba language --- Kurumfe language --- Lilse language --- Gur languages

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Studies on Southeast Asia 10The ancient but not completely forgotten language of Ahom (part of a culture that once dominated the Brahmaputra Valley in India) has been marked by a lack of competent critical and scholarly study. The present authors aim to correct this: in their work they include a useful introduction to the state of Ahom studies and about linguistic problems and possibilities. The three primary texts studied are presented in their Ahom characters, in transliteration, and in translation into Thai and English, and are the subjects of both literary and historical interpretation. In the final section, the scholar J. C. Eade presents an essay entitled Astronomy in the Texts: Is there any Coherence? The relevant pages from the three original manuscripts that gave rise to the established texts are reproduced here as well.

Didactics of languages --- Linguistics --- Religious literature, Indic --- Ahoms (Indic people) --- Ahom language --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Texts.

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"Bemma Kurumba is a Dravidian language spoken in the Nilgiri and Waynad Hills of India. Annotated texts in Bemma Kurumba presents folktales and dialogues in this language, together with a grammatical sketch and a glossary. These interlinearised texts provide rich data for linguistic analysis, as well as some of the earliest published cultural information about a highly understudied ethnic group. The cultural information is presented, for the most part, by the Bemma Kurumbas themselves, who speak in their own native language about aspects of their lifestyle, spiritual beliefs, and social organization into clans"--

Dialogues, Karumba. --- Kurumba (Indic people) --- Kurumba language --- Legends

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Grammar --- Historical linguistics --- Portuguese language --- Indic languages --- Malabar