TY  - BOOK
AU  - Digby,Simon
AU  - Lunn,David.Ed
AU  - Orsini,Francesca.Ed
TI  - Tales, Translations, Trajectories: Literary and Linguistic Journeys in South Asia and Beyond 
T2  - The life and works of Simon Digby volume IV
SN  - 9371795654
U1  - 928.2 D48T 
PY  - 2026///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Primus Books
KW  - Sufism
KW  - India
KW  - Yogis
KW  - Islamic hagiography
KW  - Hinduism
KW  - Sufi literature
KW  - Soufisme
KW  - Inde
KW  - Hagiographie islamique
KW  - Littérature soufie
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-305) and index
N2  - Tales, Translations, Trajectories: Literary and Linguistic Journeys in South Asia and Beyond is a collection of the late Simon Digby’s penetrating and revelatory essays on broadly literary topics.
Beginning with a substantial piece on the ‘Indian making’ of Richard Burton as an Arabist—on which Digby lectured when he was awarded the Burton Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1999—subsequent chapters explore connected themes through the Arabian Nights and related tales in the Indo-Persian tradition. The second section focusses on another of his great passions—‘wonder tales’—and includes a wholly original study of the north Indian kissa tradition and the Nepali Madhumālatī.
The final section focusses on Rudyard Kipling, Kim, and other lesser known but inter-connected colonial-era stories of ‘the little boy lost’, including missionary tracts. These probing, erudite, and in many cases never-before published essays make for essential and lively reading for anyone interested in the multi-lingual and interconnected literary worlds of South Asia
ER  -