We that are young
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And so many friends, survivors on the journey.
I am grateful to Arvind Krishna Mehrotra for permitting me to use his translations of Kabir as epigraph and on page 295, and scattered in lines throughout.
Somitra Ganguly translated the ghazal on pp. 203–204.
The fable on page 503 is abridged and reprinted with kind permission of Tilottama Rajan from the Penguin Classics edition of the Pancatantra, translated by Chandra Rajan (1993, p. 13).
The first draft of this book was made possible with the generous award of the Reid Scholarship (2010–2013) at Royal Holloway, University of London. It was finished alongside academic work at Queen Mary University of London and Warwick University, and with the invaluable support of a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship, held at Warwick University (2017–2020).
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First published in 2017
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