Bhagwandas Patel (born 19 November 1943) is an Indian folklorist who pioneered research into

Gujarat Gujarat () is a States of India, state along the Western India, western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the List of states and union territories ...

's tribal literature and brought the state's oral literature to the attention of the literary community. In 1995, he compiled the first published tribal version of the ''

Ramayana The ''Ramayana'' (; ), also known as ''Valmiki Ramayana'', as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics ...

'', ''Bhili Lokakhyan: Roam Sitma ni Varatathe'', the ''Ramakatha'' of the

Bhil Bhil or Bheel refer to the various Indigenous peoples, indigenous groups inhabiting western India, including parts of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and are also found in distant places such as Bengal and Tripura. Though they now speak the Bhili ...

people.

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