Popular poetry of the Baloches

1907·15.9 MB·English

by  Dames, Mansel Longworth, 1850-1922

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FOR COLLECTING AND PRINTING
RELICS OF POPULAR ANTIQUITIES, &c.
ESTABLISHED IN
THE YEAR MDCCCLXXVIII.
PUBLICATIONS
OF
THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY
LIX.
[1905]
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
OF this work 1,000 copies are printed, 700 of which
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POPULAR POETRY
OF THE
BALOCHES
BY
LONGWORTH
M. DAMES, M.R.A.S.
INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE(RETIRED)
VOL. I
for the Jf,olk-fC.ar.e <S0mtg -bg
DAVID NUTT, 57 59 LONG ACRE
LONDON
1906
GLASGOWI PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITYPRESS
BYROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.
PREFACE
IN bringing the Popular Poetry of the Baloches to a
conclusion and laying before the Public the result of
many years' labour in collecting, transcribing and trans-
lating the ballads and verses here set forth, I have the
greatest pleasure in acknowledging the action of the
Folklore Society in issuing this book as the Annual
Volume for 1905, and in thanking the Council and the
Society for giving me the opportunity of publishing a
work of this kind, which necessarily appeals to a limited
public.
My sincerest thanks are due also to the Royal Asiatic
Society for its assistance and co-operation, without which
it would have been impossible to include a complete
collection of the original texts from which the English
renderings are made.
Without these texts the translations, the value of which
depends mainly on the correctness of my interpretations,
would have lost much of their value.
To both Societies I now express my heartiest thanks
for their kindness.
M. L. D.