A very long and quite fascinating critique. A reviewer of ''Folktales of Bengal'' (1883), the first collection of Bangla folktales by Rev. Lal Behari Day (1824-1894), wonders about Day's omissions. He says, ''(They) make us ponder - what's so unfolk about the colonial experience after all? Why does a collection of folktales from the late nineteenth century consciously evade references to the one hundred and twenty five years of colonial legacy? How can a late-Victorian collection of folktales of Bengal (which was in many ways the heart of the Empire in India) never breathe a word about its colonial present and past?''. And so, he goes on to add the legends about the ghosts of Warren Hastings, the Momiai-wala-Sahib, and the Dinapurwala Sahib, etc. http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/bengali-folktales.html --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar