About the Book: Rajasthani Stories Retold
Rajasthan continues to fascinate the world for many reasons. Some of the more
obvious ones include its colours, its music and dance, its venerable history,
its forts, fortifications, palaces, step-wells and old towns, and its rich
textile tradition. Rajasthan also brings to mind the vast tracts of golden
desert to its north-west and west, juxtaposed by the scattered green and
dust-mantle clad valleys, plains and hillsof its south-east and east, with their
rivers and rivulets and lakes. Rajasthan is also famed for its rich oral and
written traditions, drawn from mythology and religious tales as much as from the
history of the