The Folk-Songs Of Southern India

An interesting collection of the folksongs of Southern India. The book opens with an introduction on the origins of the Dravida Language and then is divided into 8 chapters. The first chapter is a lengthy essay on the origin of folk songs and then each chapter gives the songs of the selected region. The Songs are listed are Canarese songs, Bagada songs, Coorg songs, Tamil songs, The Kural, Malayalam songs and Telugu songs. These songs are divided into various classes like moral songs, proverbial, philosophy, Songs representing non dual aspect of divinity (Advaitya), Ancient songs, theological chants, ceremonial songs and labour songs. This book is a reprint of the 1871 edition. Charles Edward Gover was a British folklorist in Madras (present-day Chennai), India. He was one of the earliest translators of the Tirukkural into English. He was the son of Thomas Gover of Poplar, Middlesex. In 1864, he was appointed principal and secretary of the Madras Military Male Orphan Asylum at Egmore, Chennai. He became a member of the Royal Asiatic Society, but withdrew in 1871–1872. He was a member of the Society of Arts and a fellow of the Anthropological Society. Gover also wrote essays on Indian folklore for the Cornhill Magazine. Under the title The Folk-Songs of Southern India, he collected his essays in 1872. In this book, he translated select couplets of the Tirukkural into English in verse and published it under the title "Odes from the Kural". He was the fourth translator of the Kural text into English, after Nathaniel Edward Kindersley, Francis Whyte Ellis, and William Henry Drew. Philologists have discredited his hypothesis that, driven into the extreme south of India, and cut off from intercourse with other peoples, the Dravidian nations have preserved their original vocabulary, and that true Dravidian roots, common to the three major branches, Tamil, Telugu, and Canarese, are pure Aryan. The Title 'The Folk-Songs Of Southern India written/authored/edited by Charles E. Gover', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121233835 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 331 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-