Retelling of Badshah and Jatkus

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Recording of Ramzan Ali, a farmer, reciting "Badshah ke Jatkus," in the Nagar dialect. In this popular story A King is widowed, so his sons go find him a new bride. When she gives birth to a boy, a wise woman comes to tell her that her baby will rule the Kingdom, not the two elder sons.

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2 recordings (17 min., 23 sec.); (19 min., 47 sec.)

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Munshi, Sadaf June 26, 2010.

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  • Main Title: Retelling of Badshah and Jatkus
  • Added Title: Story of Badshah ke Jatkus by Ramzan Ali
  • Series Title: Stories

Description

Recording of Ramzan Ali, a farmer, reciting "Badshah ke Jatkus," in the Nagar dialect. In this popular story A King is widowed, so his sons go find him a new bride. When she gives birth to a boy, a wise woman comes to tell her that her baby will rule the Kingdom, not the two elder sons.

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2 recordings (17 min., 23 sec.); (19 min., 47 sec.)

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  • Accession or Local Control No: NB_Story_ Badshah ke Jatkus_Ramzan Ali_26 June-2010-2
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc979570

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Burushaski Language Resource

Recordings of oral literature from different, significantly threatened, regional varieties of Burushaski spoken in Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin valleys in Pakistan and Srinagar in India. Included are audio and video recordings; fieldwork notes; photographs; and transcriptions, translations, and analyses of selected texts.

Computational Resource on South Asian Languages

The Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) is a digital archive for source audio, video, and text on the minority languages of South Asia.

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  • June 26, 2010

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  • June 8, 2017, 12:34 p.m.

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  • Aug. 19, 2020, 4:40 p.m.

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Munshi, Sadaf. Retelling of Badshah and Jatkus, audio recording, June 26, 2010; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc979570/: accessed June 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.

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