Storytime in India: Wedding Songs, Victorian Tales, and the Ethnographic Experience
- Author: Myers, Helen
- Author: Pandey, Umesh
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$60.75Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Songs and Accessing the Audio Files
- Prologue
- Introduction: Umesh Explains Storytime
- 1. A Fulbright Grant to Banaras, India
- 2. Toast
- Interlude I: Lizzy Greystock
- 3. Setting Up Our Apartment in Banaras, 2007
- 4. The Daily Routine
- Interlude II: Sir Florian
- 5. Arranging an Indian Wedding
- 6. The Search for a Boy
- 7. Helen and Umesh Meet
- 8. Viewing the Bride
- 9. The Tilak Talk Begins
- 10. Gangajali
- 11. The Tilak, Explained by Umesh
- 12. Song Journey
- 13. Tilak Songs
- 14. "Dress Him in a Bra and Bodice": Gali for the Tilak
- 15. The Songs Become Personal
- 16. "We Sell Dreams"
- 17. Saguni Songs: "This night is ours"
- Interlude III: Lady Eustace
- 18. Umesh Remembers Charlotte Wiser
- 19. Matikor: Sashi Interrupts, but We Do Not Hear "A Mare Has Pissed"
- 20. Helen's Pounding Pot
- 21. Umesh Explains Gali
- Interlude IV. Lucy Morris
- 22. The Kalas and the Harish
- 23. Arranging a Priest
- 24. Wedding Expenses
- 25. The Island Diaspora: My Introduction to Indian Culture from Far Away
- Interlude V: Frank Greystock
- 26. Grannie Music
- 27. Ethnomusicology
- 28. The Turmeric Is Pleasing
- Interlude VI: The Eustace Necklace
- 29. Heat
- 30. Kissing
- 31. The Bride and Groom go to the Kohabar
- 32. Sahana Songs before the Wedding Ritual: The Blue Blue Horse
- 33. Umesh Tells the Krishna Story
- Interlude VII: Lady Linlithgow's Mission, , The Sawab of Mygawb
- 34. And Love
- 35. Kabir
- 36. Great Novels and Lesser Novels
- 37. Trapping the Family Gods
- Interlude VIII: Mr. Burke's Speeches
- 38. Helen Contracts Typhoid
- 39. Getting the Siri at the Home of the Potter
- 40. My Husband Is the Inspector of Police
- Interlude IX: The Conquering Hero Comes
- 41. The Evil Eye
- 42. Umesh Gets Malaria
- 43. On the Stage, the Bridegroom Puts on His Garments
- 44. Preparing for Winter
- 45. Adorn the Elephant, Adorn the Horse
- 46. The Jaluaa
- 47. The Story of Krishna and the Crocodile: A Song with Many Many Stories
- 48. Umesh Tells the Remainder of the Krishna Story
- 49. More Jaluaa Songs and Stories
- Interlude X: Showing What the Miss Fawns Said, and What Mrs. Hittaway Thought
- 50. Charlotte Wiser Leaves Karimganj
- 51. Wedding Night
- 52. Mona's Nacchu Nahawan in Rasalpur
- 53. Protecting the Bride from the Evil Eye
- Interlude XI: Lizzie and Her Lover
- 54. Arrival at the Janmassa
- 55. Gali for Barati People and Bridegroom
- 56. What about Clothes and Ornaments
- 57. Bhajan Interlude
- Interlude XII: Lord Fawn at His Office
- 58. Umesh Recalls His Wedding
- 59. Feeding the Wedding Party
- 60. Dwar Puja-The New System
- 61. The Animal Party
- 62. Departure of the Barat
- Interlude XIII: I Only Thought of It
- 63. The Bridegroom Enters the Courtyard
- 64. The Bride Enters the Courtyard
- 65. Donation of the Virgin Daughter
- 66. Ceremony of the Puffed Rice
- 67. The Sindur Ritual
- 68. The Kohabar Ritual
- 69. Ceremony at the Ganges
- Interlude XIV: Showing What Frank Greystock Did
- 70. Arrival of the Bride in her Sasural, the Gauna
- 71. Love Marriages
- 72. Five Days
- 73. Just One More Song
- 74. Gangajali's Story
- Interlude XV: "Doan't Thou Marry for Munny"
- 75. One Last Song
- Interlude XVI: I'll Give You a Hundred Guinea Broach
- 76. Preparing for China
- 77. Leaving Banaras in 2008
- 78. Conclusion
- Interlude XVII: The Eustace Diamonds
- 79. Umesh Tells a Story from Karimganj
- 80. A Passage to India
- 81. Bangles in Ballia
- 82. Across the Seven Seas
- 83. Umesh Arranges for the Swan's Quill
- 84. The Religion of Humanity
- 85. Storytime
- Appendix: Rituals of the Hindu Wedding in Ballia
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index