Folktales from India : a selection of oral tales from twenty-two languages / selected and edited by A.K. Ramanujan.

Tell it to the walls /​ Tamil
Untold stories /​ Gondi
Gopal Bhar the star-counter /​ Bengali
Bopoluchi /​ Punjabi
The Jasmine Prince /​ Tamil
Sona and Rupa /​ Hindi/​Malwi
Brother's day /​ Rajasthani
The Brahman who swallowed a God /​ Bengali
One man's virtue /​ Oriya
A crow's revenge /​ Kannada
A story in search of an audience /​ Telugu
The clay mother-in-law /​ Kannada
The barber and the Brahman demon /​ Benjali
Why the fish laughed /​ Kashmiri
A parrot called Hiraman /​ Bengali
The monkey and the crocodile /​ Kannada; Tamil
What happens when you really listen /​ Telugu
Tenali Rama /​ Kannada; Tamil; Telugu
How Tenali Rama became a Jester
Tenali Rama's Ramayana
Two sisters /​ Santali
Sukhu and Dukhu /​ Bengali
One, two, three /​ Santali
The wife who refused to be beaten /​ Kashmiri
The Ogress Queen /​ Kashmiri
Killed by a tiger /​ Santali
Outwitting fate /​ Tamil
Four girls and a king /​ Punjabi.
If it isn't you, it must be your father /​ Kannada
Why audiences laugh or cry /​ Punjabi
Akbar and Birbal ; The best of flowers ; Make it shorter ; Bring be four ; Sons-in-law /​ Urdu
The night-blind son-in-law /​ Kannada
Shall I show you my real face? /​ Tamil
A malcontent cured /​ Kashmiri
The kite's daughter /​ Assamese
A flowering tree /​ Kannada
A musical demon /​ Tamil
Other lives /​ Kashmiri
Living like a pig /​ Telugu
A heron in the mouth /​ Bengali
Tenali Rama's art /​ Kannada; Tamil; Telugu
One more use for artists /​ Gujerati
Heron boy /​ Tulu
The tiger's adopted son /​ Didayi
How to live on half a pice /​ Konkani
The magic bowls /​ Tamil
The four jogis /​ Santali
A friend in need /​ Malayalam
Winning a princess /​ Tulu
Crossing a river, losing a self /​ Kannada; Tamil; Telugu
Prince sabar /​ Gujerati.
The lord of death /​ Punjabi
The shepherd's ghost /​ Telugu
This world and the other /​ Bengali
If God is everywhere /​ Bengali
A tiger that didn't know who he was /​ Bengali
Gandharva Sen is dead! /​ Bengali
Tenali Rama's dream /​ Telugu
A feast in a dream /​ Rajasthani
In search of a dream /​ Santali
The princess whose father wanted to marry her /​ Tulu
Mother marries son /​ Marathi
A cure /​ Bengali
A tall tale in Urdu /​ Urdu
The greatest /​ Angami Naga
A story for Sundays /​ Marathi
Tenali Rama and the Brahmans /​ Kannada; Tamil; Telugu
A hair's-breadth escape /​ Tamil
Between two wives /​ Tamil
The dead prince and the talking doll /​ Kannada
The serpent mother /​ Gujerati
Teja and Teji /​ Assamese
The dove's egg: a chain tale /​ Malayalam
A drum /​ Hindi
In the kingdom of fools /​ Kannada
Nonviolence /​ Bengali
The barber's secret /​ Tamil.
Gopal Bhar cures a dreamer /​ Benjali
A scavenger's dream /​ Oriya
The boy who sold wisdom /​ Gujerati
Two jars of persian /​ Punjabi
In another country /​ Punjabi
One man's pleasure /​ Urdu
Raja Vikram and the princess of China /​ Hindi
Walking on water /​ Bengali
The guru and the idiot /​ Telugu
Grateful animals, ungrateful man /​ Hindi/​Kumaoni
When a black dog dies /​ Urdu
The village rogue, the city rogue, and the king of rogues /​ Oriya
A qazi with a long beard /​ Marathi
The priest who could see as far as Mecca /​ Assamese
Adventures of a disobedient son /​ Kannada
Hanchi /​ Kannada
Buffalo into rooster /​ Marathi
The prince who married his own left half /​ Kannada
A buffalo made of lac /​ Tamil
A contest of lies /​ Hindi
It's done with mirrors /​ Telugu
The kurumba in the parrot's body /​ Kota
The eighth key /​ Sindhi
How the weaver went to heaven /​ Urdu.
The tiger-makers /​ Kannada
When a tale is finished /​ Oriya
And then, Bhurrah! /​ Marathi.

Collection of the oral tales compiled from a vast array of sources and translated from twenty-two languages of the country.