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South Asia’s cosmopolitan past in the legacy of a 19th century writer

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South Asia’s cosmopolitan past in the legacy of a 19th century writer

[ad_1] On a sultry summer morning in 1863, in the port city of Surat on the western coast of India, while British officers still tossed and turned beneath the mosquito nets covering their beds, and a few intrepid souls chatting in Gujarati made their way to the Tapti river to bathe or wash their clothes … Read more

‘What unites the Kannada world is an admiration for vachana literature’: Writer Srikar Raghavan

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‘What unites the Kannada world is an admiration for vachana literature’: Writer Srikar Raghavan

[ad_1] As may be expected, reviews of Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations into Modern Karnataka have focused on the vast and varied connections between life and literature, and state and society, that the book has aimed to chronicle. Karnataka, the home state of the author, is the playground for the ball game introduced to us … Read more