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Story of hen and python

Description: This is a story about a hen and python who were very good friends. Once, seeing the hen being quite healthy, the python’s intentions went awry. He asked the hen to go inside her stomach once and check what’s there, and then he would do the same. The hen replied, okay, and the python goes inside and finds 8-10 eggs. His intentions very nefarious at once, and he asks the hen to do the same. The poor hen does so, and the cunning snake does not open his mouth to let her out.
Date: February 10, 2020
Duration: 1 minute 20 seconds
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
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Location: 25.7824000 83.0249000
Partner: UNT College of Information

Story of Master Sahib

Description: This is a story of a teacher who once — while teaching his students — says, “I have made you human from donkey by beating, but you don’t understand.” A washerman who had no children passes by and hears this. He then approaches the teacher and pleads with him to turn a donkey into a son for his sake. The teacher agrees to this and asked him to return after six months. The washerman returns after six months and asks for his son. The teacher replies that he taught and trained him so much that he b… more
Date: January 31, 2020
Duration: 2 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
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Location: 25.9038000 83.3203000
Partner: UNT College of Information

Story of Paňkhiā Bādshāh

Description: This is a story in the Eastern (Fatehpur) dialect of Azamgarhi about a king who once asks his seven daughters that from whose fate they eat. Six of them reply, “We eat because you give.” The seventh one refuses to accept this at any cost. Hearing this, the king gets furious and sends her to a jungle where she, fortunately, finds a good hut to live, meets Paňkhiyā Bādshāh (the king who appears on a swing of Punkah or fan). Finally, they both marry and live happily. Realizing this, her other sist… more
Date: February 1, 2020
Duration: 10 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
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Location: 26.0777953574565 83.191262681648
Partner: UNT College of Information

Story of Rājā Guguliyā

Description: This is a story about a prince whose maternal uncles killed his father. Once — when young — he asks his mother about his father. She replies that he was murdered by his uncle. From that day onwards, he decides to take revenge for his father’s death. His uncles wanted to kill the prince too — the way they killed his father. This story describes how the prince takes revenge. This story is in the western variety of the Southern dialect of Azamgarhi. succeeds in finding Sheherbano. This story is to… more
Date: February 10, 2020
Duration: 5 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
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Location: 25.7824000 83.0249000
Partner: UNT College of Information

Story of Sheherbānō

Description: This story — which can be said to be the Azamgarhi version of the world-famous folktale of Cinderella — is about a gorgeous princess named Sheherbānō whose mother dies, and her father remarries. The stepmother would never like the princess and inflict tremendous pain on her. Living in forsaken circumstances, the young princess witnesses a remarkable change in her fortune, thanks to her very attractive sandal being lost in the market after returning from her friend’s wedding. This leads to her a… more
Date: February 10, 2020
Duration: 5 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
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Location: 25.7824000 83.0249000
Partner: UNT College of Information

Story of Tīs Mār Khā̃

Description: This is a story about Tīs Mār Khā̃ ‘a big talker’ (lit./iron. a great warrior), a man who is a weaver and a very poor man. He has a wife and children whom he doesn’t care about at all. His wife gets something from here and there and feeds him and their children. She becomes apprehensive of his actions and tells him every day to go and earn. One fine day he becomes ready to go and earn. He asks his wife to prepare something for him to eat on the way. This story talks about his fake valor, which h… more
Date: February 10, 2020
Duration: 8 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
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Partner: UNT College of Information

Story of winters and springs

Description: This is a story of a king who has seven children and once tells one of his children to bring a few things from the market. He instead brings a book that makes the king angry, and he evicts him. The son leaves the palace, goes to another village, and begins to stay there. He takes up a challenge and wins. The king gets pleased and marries his daughter with him. The prince then returns to his father’s kingdom, and the story continues. The story is recited by Asiya Khatoon, who is a Bhojpuri speak… more
Date: February 1, 2020
Duration: 13 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
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Location: 26.0777953574565 83.191262681648
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional narrative about a poor old lady and a magician

Description: This is a story of a destitute old lady who had two sons, and she could barely feed them. After some time, an aged man comes to that old lady and asks her to hand over her sons to him to raise them. The old woman agrees to this while saying that she’ll keep one of them when they became adults, whereas he can take the other one. The old man — who was a magician — takes care of them. He educates one, whereas he keeps the other for household chores, who later learns magic from him. The latter is d… more
Date: November 26, 2020
Duration: 5 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
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Location: 25.9651000 83.1064000
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional narrative about a poor old lady and a magician

Description: This is a story of a destitute old lady who had two sons, and she could barely feed them. After some time, an aged man comes to that old lady and asks her to hand over her sons to him to raise them. The old woman agrees to this while saying that she’ll keep one of them when they became adults, whereas he can take the other one. The old man — who was a magician — takes care of them. He educates one, whereas he keeps the other for household chores, who later learns magic from him. The latter is d… more
Date: November 26, 2020
Duration: 6 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 25.9651000 83.1064000
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Transcription: Performance of a drama titled 'gharphū̃kan patōh'

Description: The transcription and free translations in English, Urdu, and Hindi of a performance of a drama by the title – Gharphū̃kan patōh 'Spendthrift daughter-in-law' (in English). The drama depicts a typical rural life of the North Indian plains where a woman and her family are very frustrated by the misdeeds of the daughter-in-law because she is a spendthrift.
Date: unknown
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
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Partner: UNT College of Information
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Verb Morphology in Awadhi of Azamgarh

Description: This study is the very first detailed description of the (finite) verb morphology in Azamgarhi, a unique Awadhic Indo-Aryan language spoken exclusively by a significant number of Muslims of the Azamgarh region of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is a part of a broader goal of holistic and comprehensive documentation of the Azamgarhi language, filling a gap in the descriptive literature, beginning with a detailed discussion on the social and linguistic background of the language in question and then mov… more
Date: 2021
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
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Partner: UNT College of Information

Video recording of driving away the nilgais 'blue bulls'

Description: This is a video recording of Aquil Ahmad, who can be seen driving away from his farms, two nilgais, or the blue bulls, which are large antelopes of the genus Boselaphus, found in northern India. They are a menace to the farmers and their cultivated crops.
Date: January 27, 2020
Duration: 1 minute 54 seconds
Creator: Shaikh, Maaz
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 25.7798000 83.0106000
Partner: UNT College of Information
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