The Ho-Disum Ho Honko is a translation project that aims to translate 7 Ho-language books written between 1978 and 1982 by Ho scholar Dhanur Singh Purty (short bio).

These volumes document Ho village life in rich detail—everyday practices, rituals, customs, myths, and the spirit world—told from an insider’s perspective. Edited by J. Deeney, who described the work as a “gold-mine of Ho lore,” and illustrated with photographs by Michael Yorke, the books were published in Chaibasa in the early 1980s in Devanagari script and have never been translated.

A first translation effort began in 2019 and resulted traslation of chapters 3 and 4 of Volume 5, on “Ageing among Ho men and women” by John Mundu (read/download).