Bhagwandas Patel
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Bhagwandas Patel is a Gujarati
folklorist who pioneered research into Gujarat's tribal literature and brought the state's oral literature to the attention of the literary community. In 1995 he compiled the first published tribal version of the Ramayana
, Bhili Lokakhyan: Roam Sitma ni Varatathe, the Ramakatha of the Bhil
people.
Gujarati people
Gujarati people , or Gujaratis are an ethnic group that is traditionally Gujarati-speaking and can trace their ancestry to the state of Gujarat in western India...
folklorist who pioneered research into Gujarat's tribal literature and brought the state's oral literature to the attention of the literary community. In 1995 he compiled the first published tribal version of the Ramayana
Ramayana
The Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is ascribed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon , considered to be itihāsa. The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India and Nepal, the other being the Mahabharata...
, Bhili Lokakhyan: Roam Sitma ni Varatathe, the Ramakatha of the Bhil
Bhil
Bhils are primarily an Adivasi people of Central India. Bhils are also settled in the Tharparkar District of Sindh, Pakistan. They speak the Bhil languages, a subgroup of the Western Zone of the Indo-Aryan languages....
people.