# Folklore from Mizoram

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**Author:** Margaret L. Pachuau (translator)[⌊A sample cover of the book: green handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Folklore-from-Mizoram-scaled-1.jpg)
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Pages:** 96 **Year of Publication:** 2013, 2023 **Price:** Rs 250 [2013], Rs 400[
2023] **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-056-7 (9789350450567)

_**About the Author**_
 Margaret L. Pachuau has several published works to her credit,
including _The Heart of the Matter_ (2004), _The Experience of Expatriation_ (2006),
_Construction of Good and Evil in Iris Murdoch’s Discourse_ (2007) and _**Handpicked
Tales from Mizoram**_, published by **Writers Workshop**, India, in 2008. She undertook
a major research project on identity and Mizo folk narratives that was sponsored
by the University Grants Commission, India. She was awarded the first prize for 
fiction in translation in a competition organized by Muse India in 2008 for _Lamkhuang_(
translated as _The Jackfruit Tree_), by the Mizo author Vanneihtluanga. Dr Pachuau
is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Mizoram University.

_**Teaser**_
 In her introduction to the book, Dr Pachuau writes:”_Folklore from
Mizoram_ is a collection of folklore, some of which have been rendered in translation
for the very first time. Folklore and the Mizo cultural ethos are related one to
the other and this collection attempts to portray the significance of identity as
located intrinsically within the parameters of the history of Mizo folkloristics…

The aspect of the oral narrative within the Mizo cultural as well as literary context
has been pivotal. For instance in terms of a significantly oral perspective there
has been a marked focus upon the centrality of the animal world order in terms of
Mizo narratives. Precolonial sensibility has depicted a world that was replete with
the coexistence of animals in the larger arena of reality. It is impossible to conceive
a world that was bereft of the animal world order in terms of the Mizo domains. 
Animals were regarded to be on equal, if not on superior, terms with human beings.
Identity and the cultural parameters that are related to the same have been increasingly
complex.”

_**Contents**_
 Introduction / 9 How Creation Came to Be / 25 How the Mountains 
and Lakes Were Formed / 29 How Rice Came to Be Eaten / 33 The Adventures of Chhura/
35 Lianchhiari and Chawngfianga / 49 Laltheri and Chalthanga / 59 Chawngchilhi /
63 Mauruangi / 69 Thinlanga / 81 Sabereka Khuangkaih / 85 Rih Dil and the Abode 
of the Dead / 87 Kungawrhi / 91