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This book contains not only over 40 fairy tales, such as "Jack and the Beanstalk", "The Babes in the Woods", but stories from different traditions also make an appearance, including "The Three Bears" and "Little Red Riding Hood".

This children's book tells the story of Akbar, a young Indian prince who embarks on a series of daring adventures in search of enlightenment and self-discovery. Along the way, Akbar meets exotic creatures, battles fierce enemies, and learns valuable lessons about courage, friendship, and humility.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This is not a novel, neither is it a history. It is the life-story of a man, taken from his own memoirs. 'Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, gentleman, apothecary, ploughboy, thief." So runs the jingle. The hero of this book might have claimed as many personalities in himself, for Zahir-ud-din Mahomed commonly called Babar, Emperor of India, the first of the dynasty which we mis-name the Great Moghuls, was at one and the same time poet, painter, soldier, athlete, gentleman, musician, beggar and King. He lived the most adventurous life a man ever lived, in the end of the fifteenth, the beginning of the sixteenth centuries; and he kept a record of it.On this record I have worked. Reading between the lines often, at times supplying details that must have occurred, doing my best to present, without flaw, the lovable, versatile, volatile soul which wrote down its virtues and its vices, its successes and its failures with equally unsparing truth, and equally invariable sense of honour and humour. The incident of the crystal bowl, and the details of Babar's subsequent marriage to Maham (the woman who was to be to him what Ayesha was to Mahomed), are purely imaginary. I found it necessary to supply some explanation of the curious coincidence in time of this undoubted marriage with the pitifully brief romance of little Cousin Ma'asuma; for Babar was above all things affectionate. I trust my imagining fits in with the general tone of my hero's life....... Flora Annie Steel (2 April 1847 - 12 April 1929) was an English writer who was noted for writing books set in British India or otherwise connected to it.*Personal life*.She was born Flora Annie Webster in Sudbury, Middlesex, the sixth child of George Webster. In 1867, she married Henry William Steel, a member of the Indian Civil Service, and for the next twenty-two years lived in India (until 1889), chiefly in the Punjab, with which most of her books are connected. She grew deeply interested in native Indian life and began to urge educational reforms on the government of India. Mrs Steel became an Inspectress of Government and Aided Schools in the Punjab and also worked with John Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard Kipling's father, to foster Indian arts and crafts.When her husband's health was weak, Flora Annie Steel took over some of his responsibilities.She died at her daughter's house in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire on 12 April 1929.Her biographers include Violet Powell and Daya Patwardhan.

In The Guardianship Of God is a novel written by Flora Annie Steel. The story is set in India during the British Raj and follows the life of a young girl named Hira Lal. Hira Lal is the daughter of a wealthy Indian merchant who is forced to flee his home and leave his daughter in the care of a British family. The British family takes Hira Lal in as their own and raises her as a Christian. As Hira Lal grows up, she struggles to balance her Indian heritage with her Christian faith. She also faces discrimination from both the British and Indian communities because of her mixed heritage. Despite these challenges, Hira Lal remains steadfast in her belief in God and her desire to do what is right.Throughout the novel, Hira Lal's life is intertwined with those of the British family who took her in, as well as other Indian and British characters. The story explores themes of identity, faith, love, and prejudice in the context of colonial India.In The Guardianship Of God is a poignant and thought-provoking novel that offers a glimpse into the complexities of life in colonial India. Steel's writing is vivid and evocative, transporting readers to a time and place that is both foreign and familiar.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Tales of the Punjab: Folklore of India, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

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In the Permanent Way is a novel written by Flora Annie Steel. The story is set in India during the British Raj and follows the lives of a group of characters, including a railway engineer, a young couple, and a group of Indian workers. The novel explores themes of love, betrayal, and the clash of cultures between the British and the Indian people. The title of the book refers to the railway tracks, which are a symbol of the British presence in India and the permanent mark they left on the country. Steel's writing is known for its vivid descriptions and attention to detail, and In the Permanent Way is no exception. The novel offers a fascinating glimpse into a complex period of history and is a must-read for anyone interested in the British Raj or Indian literature.1897. An English writer, Steel married an Indian civilian, and for the next twenty-two years lived in India, chiefly in the Punjab area, with which most of her books are connected; her interest in the education of women, as an inspector of schools, gave her special insight into native life and character. The novel, On the Face of the Waters describing incidents of the Indian Mutiny, is her most ambitious work. Her best work can be found in her short-story collections of which In the Permanent Way is one.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

CONTENTS: 1.ST. GEORGE OF MERRIE ENGLAND 2.TOM-TIT-TOT 3.THE GOLDEN SNUFF-BOX 4.TATTERCOATS 5.THE THREE FEATHERS 6.LAZY JACK 7.JACK THE GIANT-KILLER 8.THE THREE SILLIES 9.THE GOLDEN BALL 10.THE GOLDEN BALL 11.THE TWO SISTERS 12.THE LAIDLY WORM 13.TITTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSE 14.JACK AND THE BEANSTALK INTRODUCTION The stories collected in this volume have been selected from many sources, because in the judgment of the editor, they are sound pieces of writing, wholesome in tone, varied in interest and style, and interesting. It is his hope that they will not only furnish good reading, but that they will suggest the kind of reading in this field that should be within the reach of children. Children ought to have stories at hand precisely as they ought to have food, toys, games, playgrounds, because stories meet one of the normal needs of their natures. But these stories, like the food given to the body, ought to be intelligently selected, not only for their quality but for their adaptation. There are many good books which ought not to be in the hands of children because children have not had the experience which interprets them; they will either fail to understand, or if they understand, they will suffer a sudden forcing of growth in the knowledge of life which is always unwholesome. The fairy tale belongs to the child and ought always to be within his reach, not only because it is his special literary form and his nature craves it, but because it is one of the most vital of the textbooks offered to him in the school of life. As a class, children not only possess the faculty of imagination, but are very largely occupied with it during the most sensitive and formative years, and those who lack it are brought under its spell by their fellows. They do not accurately distinguish between the actual and the imaginary, and they live at ease in a world out of which paths run in every direction into wonderland.

From the preface: "Many of the tales in this collection appeared either in the Indian Antiquary, the Calcutta Review, or the Legends of the Punjab. They were then in the form of literal translations, in many cases uncouth or even unpresentable to ears polite, in all scarcely intelligible to the untravelled English reader; for it must be remembered that, with the exception of the Adventures of Raja Rasâlu, all these stories are strictly folk-tales passing current among a people who can neither read nor write, and whose diction is full of colloquialisms, and, if we choose to call them so, vulgarisms. It would be manifestly unfair, for instance, to compare the literary standard of such tales with that of the Arabian Nights, the Tales of a Parrot, or similar works. The manner in which these stories were collected is in itself sufficient to show how misleading it would be, if, with the intention of giving the conventional Eastern flavour to the text, it were to be manipulated into a flowery dignity; and as a description of the procedure will serve the double purpose of credential and excuse, the authors give it, -premising that all the stories but three have been collected by Mrs. F. A. Steel during winter tours through the various districts of which her husband has been Chief Magistrate. A carpet is spread under a tree in the vicinity of the spot which the Magistrate has chosen for his darbâr, but far enough away from bureaucracy to let the village idlers approach it should they feel so inclined. In a very few minutes, as a rule, some of them begin to edge up to it, and as they are generally small boys, they commence nudging each other, whispering, and sniggering. The fancied approach of a chuprâsî, the 'corrupt lictor' of India, who attends at every darbâr, will however cause a sudden stampede; but after a time these become less and less frequent, the wild beasts, as it were, becoming tamer. By and by a group of women stop to gaze, and then the question 'What do you want?' invariably brings the answer 'To see your honour' (âp ke darshan âe). Once the ice is broken, the only difficulties are, first, to understand your visitors, and secondly, to get them to go away. When the general conversation is fairly started, inquiries are made by degrees as to how many witches there are in the village, or what cures they know for fever and the evil eye, etc. At first these are met by denials expressed in set terms, but a little patient talk will generally lead to some remarks which point the villagers' minds in the direction required, till at last, after many persuasions, some child begins a story, others correct the details, emulation conquers shyness, and finally the story-teller is brought to the front with acclamations: for there is always a story-teller par excellence in every village-generally a boy."

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Excerpt from Voices in the Night: A Chromatic Fantasia The new year was already some hours old, but the world to which it had come was still dark. Dark with a curious obscurity that was absolutely opaque yet faintly luminous because of the white fog which lay on all things and hid them from the stars; for the sky above was clear, cold, almost frosty. That was why the fog, born, not of cool vapour seeking for cloud life among the winds of heaven, but of hot smoke loving the warmth of dust and ashes, clung so closely to the earth - to its birthplace. It was an acrid, bitter smoke, not even due to the dead hearth-fires of a dead day, since they - like all else pertaining to the domestic life of India - give small outward sign of existence, but to the smouldering piles of litter and refuse which are lit every evening upon the outskirts of human habitation. Dull heaps with a minimum of fire, a maximum of smoke, where the humanity which has produced the litter, the refuse, gathers for gossip or for warmth. Even in the fields beyond the multitude of men, where some long-limbed peasant, watching his hope of harvest, dozes by a solitary fire, this same smoke rises in a solid column until, beaten down by the colder moister air above, it drifts sideways to spread like a vast cobweb over the dew-set carpet of green corn. So it was small wonder if here, at Nushapore, with its fifty thousand and odd dwellers in cantonments, its two hundred and odd thousand dwellers in the town, the smoke fog hid earth from heaven; hid even the steady coming of day. For it was close on dawn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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"The Mercy of the Lord" from Flora Annie Steel. English writer (1847-1929).

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"Miss Stuart's Legacy" from Flora Annie Steel. English writer (1847-1929).

"Red Rowans" from Flora Annie Steel. English writer (1847-1929).

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"On the Face of the Waters" from Flora Annie Steel. English writer (1847-1929).

"Marmaduke" from Flora Annie Steel. English writer (1847-1929).

"King Errant" from Flora Annie Steel. English writer (1847-1929).

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India Through the Ages: A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan by Flora Annie Steel. A history, above all one which claims to hold no original research, but simply to be a compilation of the work of others, needs no introduction save the compiler's thanks to many who have been consulted. One word, however, may be said regarding the only accent used--the circumflex. This is put always on the tone of stress; that is to say, on the syllable to be accented. Thus Mâlwa, Ambêr, Jeysulmêr, Himâlya, Vizigapatâm. Where no accent appears the syllables are of equal value. Hindustan is derived from the Modern Persian word Hindu. In Old Persian, the region beyond the Indus River was referred to as Hindus, hence Modern Persian Hind, Hindu. This combined with the Iranian suffix-stan results in Hindustan, "land of the Indus". 1st century BCE, the term "Hein-tu" was used by Chinese. Term came into common use under the Mughals who referred to their dominion, centered on Delhi, as 'Hindustan'.

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"A Prince of Dreamers" from Flora Annie Steel. English writer (1847-1929).

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"The Adventures of Akbar" from Flora Annie Steel. English writer (1847-1929).

Contents: 1.THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY 2.CATSKIN 3.THE THREE LITTLE PIGS 4.NIX NAUGHT NOTHING 5.MR. AND MRS. VINEGAR 6.THE TRUE HISTORY OF SIR THOMAS THUMB 7.HENNY-PENNY 8.THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL 9.MR. FOX 10.DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT 11.THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG 12.THE WEE BANNOCK 13.HOW JACK WENT OUT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE 14.THE BOGEY-BEAST 15.CHILDE ROWLAND 16.THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM 17.CAPORUSHES 18.THE RED ETTIN 19.THE FISH AND THE RING 20.MASTER OF ALL MASTERS 21.MOLLY WHUPPIE AND THE DOUBLE-FACED GIANT 22.THE ASS, THE TABLE, AND THE STICK 23.THE WELL OF THE WORLD'S END 24.THE ROSE TREE INTRODUCTION The stories collected in this volume have been selected from many sources, because in the judgment of the editor, they are sound pieces of writing, wholesome in tone, varied in interest and style, and interesting. It is his hope that they will not only furnish good reading, but that they will suggest the kind of reading in this field that should be within the reach of children. Children ought to have stories at hand precisely as they ought to have food, toys, games, playgrounds, because stories meet one of the normal needs of their natures. But these stories, like the food given to the body, ought to be intelligently selected, not only for their quality but for their adaptation. There are many good books which ought not to be in the hands of children because children have not had the experience which interprets them; they will either fail to understand, or if they understand, they will suffer a sudden forcing of growth in the knowledge of life which is always unwholesome. The fairy tale belongs to the child and ought always to be within his reach, not only because it is his special literary form and his nature craves it, but because it is one of the most vital of the textbooks offered to him in the school of life. As a class, children not only possess the faculty of imagination, but are very largely occupied with it during the most sensitive and formative years, and those who lack it are brought under its spell by their fellows. They do not accurately distinguish between the actual and the imaginary, and they live at ease in a world out of which paths run in every direction into wonderland.

Flora Annie Steel was interested in relating to all classes of Indian society. The birth of her daughter gave her a chance to interact with local women and learn their language. She encouraged the production of local handicrafts and collected folk-tales, a collection of which she published in 1894. Her interest in schools and the education of women gave her a special insight into native life and character. A year before leaving India, she coauthored and published The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook, giving detailed directions to European women on all aspects of household management in India. In 1889 the family moved back to Scotland, and she continued her writing there. Some of her best work, according to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, is contained in two collections of short stories, From the Five Rivers and Tales of the Punjab. Her novel On the Face of the Waters (1896) describes incidents in the Indian Mutiny. She also wrote a popular history of India. John F. Riddick describes Steel's The Hosts of the Lord as one of the "three significant works" produced by Anglo-Indian writers on Indian missionaries, along with The Old Missionary (1895) by William Wilson Hunter and Idolatry (1909) by Alice Perrin. Among her other literary associates in India was Bithia Mary Croker.

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"In the Permanent Way" from Flora Annie Steel. English writer (1847-1929).