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... modern Tamil fiction : his subject matter is Tamil life as he observed it , the language is scholastic , and the inspiration comes from foreign sources . Not strictly a novel , his work , which has a predominantly moral tone , is a ...
... modern Tamil fiction : his subject matter is Tamil life as he observed it , the language is scholastic , and the inspiration comes from foreign sources . Not strictly a novel , his work , which has a predominantly moral tone , is a ...
Page 207
... Modern Indian literatures : The literatures in the modern Indian languages are bibliographically underrepresented in English . For some of them the best sources are to be found written in those languages themselves . The following bib ...
... Modern Indian literatures : The literatures in the modern Indian languages are bibliographically underrepresented in English . For some of them the best sources are to be found written in those languages themselves . The following bib ...
Page 527
... modern Olympics . The stadium for the first modern Olympiad in Athens was a reconstruction of the ancient marble stadium built by Herodes Atticus on the site of an even earlier stadium . The Olympics since that time have provided a ...
... modern Olympics . The stadium for the first modern Olympiad in Athens was a reconstruction of the ancient marble stadium built by Herodes Atticus on the site of an even earlier stadium . The Olympics since that time have provided a ...
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