03480cam a22003853u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000510012624500350017726400510021230000470026333600260031033700260033633800360036250000310039850504780042950802010090752015820110853400720269065300440276265300410280665300300284765300310287770000580290885600660296685600430303299900190307576982UtSlPG20260610134801.0mcr n260607r20251925utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a53053001  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aGR1 aKincaid, C. A.q(Charles Augustus),d1870-195410aFolk tales of Sind and Guzarat 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-10-040 aSind folk stories: Lal Shahbaz. Udero Lal. Jinda Pir. Abdul Latif, the author of Shah Jo Risalo. Makhdum Niamat Ullah and Makhdum Nuh. Haidarabad. Brahmanabad I. Brahmanabad II. The eighth key. The noose of Murad. The Makli Hill. Larkana. Two love tragedies. Swami Vankhandi of Sadh Belo -- Guzarat folk stories: King Mansing of Sirohi. The wisdom seller. Magadha and Rupvati. Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes -- Round about Nasik: Round about Nasik. July and December.  aJeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat" by C. A. Kincaid is a collection of folk stories written in the early 20th century. It gathers legends, saints’ lives, place-lore, and moral tales from Sind and Gujarat, retold in clear, engaging prose. The focus is on the region’s syncretic Hindu–Muslim spirituality, its river-and-desert settings, and the romance of shrines, ruins, and local heroes. It will appeal to readers interested in South Asian folklore and cultural history.  The opening of the book frames the project with a preface noting these pieces first appeared in newspapers, a dedication, a Shah Latif epigraph, and a foreword praising Sind’s landscape, romance, and new archaeological discoveries, before moving into the Sind tales. Kincaid retells the miracles and cult of Lal Shahbaz of Sehwan; the river-born savior Udero Lal who protects Hindus and leaves a shared temple-mosque; Zinda Pir (Al-Khidr/Elijah) as guardian of Indus boatmen; the life of Shah Abdul Latif and the making of Shah jo Risalo; and Makhdum Nuh’s wonders, including realigning Tatta’s great mosque. He then gives origin legends: Hyderabad (Nerankot) through Shah Makai and Haidar Ali; and two contrasting accounts of Brahmanabad’s destruction, both blaming a wicked ruler. The section closes with a fairy-tale, The Eighth Key, where a loyal minister repeatedly saves his king at great cost and is restored, and it begins The Noose of Murad, explaining a ruined fort and a proverb through the rise of a bald grass-cutter favoured by fate. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cKarachi: The Daily Gazette Press, Ltd., 1925  aSindhi (South Asian people) -- Folklore  aGujaratis (Indic people) -- Folklore  aTales -- India -- Gujarat  aTales -- Pakistan -- Sindh1 aWebb, M. de P., Sirq(Montagu de Pomeroy),d1869-19384 uhttps://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176833/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76982  c117706d117706