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INTRODUCTION TO FOLKLORE NOTES
FROM
GUJARAT AND THE KONKAN.
SOME ten years ago the late Mr. A. M. T. Jackson circulated to a
number of selected correspondents certain leading questions on folklore, to which numerous replies were received before his death. It was his intention to publish the substance of the information thus received in the pages of the Indian Antiquary. It is possible that he may also have intended, at some future time, to produce a work on the folklore of the Bombay Presidency based on these materials, and amplified by the fruits of his mature scholarship. His intention, if it existed, can no longer be fulfilled. The existence of a small memorial fund, however, has provided the means for preparing for publication the valuable materials collected by him, as well as for their ultimate inclusion in a small volume intended for the use of folklore scholars. With the approval and support of the Jackson Memorial Committee, I am now in a position to tender the following and subsequent papers for publication in the Indian Antiquary. Readers of the Antiquary may remember that Mr. Jackson had accepted the joint editorship of this journal only a short time before his death at Nasik deprived India of a ripe scholar and sincere friend.
R. E. ENTHOVEN.
