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James Oinam

James Oinam is a copy editor at Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd., based in Delhi. He has more than ten years of experience in the publishing industry. This book is a compilation of short stories constructed from the oral folktales that he has heard, filling up the gaps in them for coherency, and introducing new plots. The author would like to observe here that due to interpersonal sensitivity, the tales told to children are often adapted versions. Hence, Manipuri folktales are often very different from the original stories. After noticing the contrasts between what he heard as a child and whaRead More...


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New Folktales of Manipur
Books by James Oinam

This collection documents Meitei beliefs and some of the many oral versions of Manipuri folktales which the author heard as a child. Many folktales and beliefs have sacred and unutterable secrets in their wombs. The occult practices mentioned herein are based on personal conversations with native exorcists (known as maiba and maibe, male and female shamans).

No culture can be an island in itself. The author does not believe in a time-bound and immune cul

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