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The World's Literature in India

Literature from the languages of India.

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Indian peafowls, relatives of the pheasant.
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Those Days: A Novel
Those Days: A Novel
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"Sei Samai is a period novel set in initeenth-century Bengal. It explores the cross-currents of social, p…more
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Pañcatantra: The Book of India's Folk Wisdom
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