Saat Bhai Champa

For the Indian television series, see Saat Bhai Champa (TV series).

Saat Bhai Champa (Bengali: সাত ভাই চম্পা,[1] Sāt Bhāi Champā)[2] or Sat Bhai Chompa is a popular folk tale in the Bengal region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent.[3] The story was first officially published by Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder in the book Thakurmar Jhuli in 1907. The introduction to Thakurmar Jhuli was written by Nobel-Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore. A more detailed version of the story was published by Bishnu Dey under the name "Sat Bhai Champa" in 1944.[4]

  1. ^ Āśrāpha, Siddikī (1977). Śubha nabarsha (in Bengali). Bāṃlādeśā Baighara. p. 56.
  2. ^ Mode, Heinz [in German]; Ray, Arun (1992). Bengalische Märchen [Bengali Fairy Tales] (in German). Frankfurt: Insel Verlag. p. 470. ISBN 3458163395.
  3. ^ Mitra, Bansari. The Renovation of Folktales by Five Modern Bengali Writers. Anthropological Survey of India, 2002. p. 69.
  4. ^ Guha, Bimal (2012). "De, Bishnu". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.