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I don't profess to have deep knowledge of the folklore of India. The opening sentence seems to suggest that there is no folklore in India, and that the claim that India has folklore is wholly the result of some kind of colonial condescension to their religion and way of life. This strikes me as
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frankly preposterous. Folklore is a human universal, even if the scope of what's folklore and what represents a greater or more formal social investment in its truth may have fuzzy outlines. There must be at least some local narratives, oral traditions, and children's games in India.
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