“Baataan ri Phulwari” is written by :

Concept

Rajasthani literature contains many distinct folk-tale and poetry collections, each credited to a specific author. Identifying which work belongs to which writer requires matching the exact title to the author recorded in literary and exam-board records, since several Rajasthani litterateurs produced comparable folk-based collections.

Application

“Baatan ri Phulwari” (“बातां री फुलवारी”, meaning “Garden of Tales”) is a fourteen-volume collection of Rajasthani folk tales authored by Vijaydan Detha, popularly known as “Bijji”. Detha received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1974 for Volume 10 of this collection, and the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 2004.

Contrasting the Other Options

• Laxmi Kumari Chundawat authored and edited a different body of Rajasthani folk literature — she transcribed and edited the Rajasthani folk epic ‘Bagravat Devnarayan’ and was honoured with the Padma Shri in 1984 for her contribution to Rajasthani literature.

• Shrilal (Shreelal Nathmalji Joshi) compiled a separate Rajasthani folk-tale anthology, ‘Rajasthani Vaat Sangrah’, together with Manohar Sharma; it was published by the Sahitya Akademi in 1984.

• Malchand Tiwari is a Rajasthani-Hindi poet and writer whose poetry collection ‘Utrayo Hai Abho’ received the Sahitya Akademi Award; he has also translated H. G. Wells’ ‘The Time Machine’ into Hindi.

Cross-check

RSSB’s official Patwar 2025 Shift-1 answer key confirms Vijaydan Detha as the author of “Baatan ri Phulwari”, which matches independent bibliographic and publisher records crediting him with the work.