Text and Tradition in South India

Text and Tradition in South IndiaEssays on Telugu and South Indian literature and culture by distinguished Telugu scholar Narayana Rao. Velcheru Narayana Rao's contribution to understanding Indian cultural history, literary production, and intellectual life specifically from the vantage of the Andhra region has few parallels. He is one of the very rare scholars to be able to reflect magisterially on the precolonial and colonial periods. He moves easily between Sanskrit and the

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