• Mrs.REENA KUMARI

India is known as one of the most diverse countries in the world, having their own unique treasure of folk tales. The diversity of India’s culture ensures a wide range of folk tales as the culture of our country is based on traditional language and culture from different regions. Vijaydan Detha has been a renowned writer from Rajasthan who restored the oral literature of Rajasthan in the form of folk stories which are compiled in his excellent collection of folk stories namely Batan ri Phulwari (Garden of Tales). Women centred stories are very popular among them in which he urges that man and woman are two indivisible wedges of society. The folk stories of Detha break all barriers which are constructed by male dominated society. He depicts lady character strongly and many colours of lady love is being offered in the folk stories like- “The Dilemma”, “Press the Sap Light the Lamp”, and “New Life”. The paper is an attempt to explore how Detha highlights the extremity is feminine love. These stories revolve around the lady characters and their feeling of love which is experienced by a woman, an epitome of love and chastity in a typical Rajasthani society. The paper also sheds light on the issues related to woman dignity and self-respect mentioned by the writer that a woman is not destined to live exploited life and possess exploited love. He claims for complete freedom with dignity of love to the womanhood. The romantic form of love can be seen in his folk stories like in the story “The Dilemma” the heroine prefers ghost love and unusual snake love is accepted by the protagonist of another story “Press the Sap, Light the Lamp” as a paragon of true love in place of their husbands’ unworthy love. In the third story “New Life” we can able to watch the same sex love, as Teeja and Beeja, both the girls succeed to secure their same sex marriage relationship by rejecting the societal norms. Thus, the paper deliberates upon many colours of love as eternal emotion which prevails everywhere in the repository world of folklore.

Folk stories, Desire of love, Love vs chastity, Affection, Types of love in Rajasthani folklore.

"Different Shades of Women' Love and Affection in Folk Tales of Vijaydan Detha", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no.d277-d281, July-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307335.pdf

"Different Shades of Women' Love and Affection in Folk Tales of Vijaydan Detha", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no. ppd277-d281, July-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307335.pdf