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This book presents the contexts that generated Victorian literature as we know it: religious dilemmas, new discoveries in science, the advent of industrialisation and the emergence of a new class, growing awareness of women’s rights, and the spread of education. The reign of Queen Victoria was a time of change like it never was before. This book looks at those precincts of change which led to the growth of a new literary creativity encompassing and taking ...
Scrolls of Strife attempts to probe the tumultuous history of the Nagas – arguably the most distinctive but misunderstood race in India. Seen as a belligerent people who authored the most intractable version of insurgency in Eastern India, the Nagas’ relationship with the ‘outsider’ from the ‘mainland’ has been fraught, to say the least. It’s not just that a non-Naga feels like an outsider in Nagaland, the Nagas also ...