Mountain Echoes: Reminiscences of Kumaoni WomenAn evocative recollection of life in the Kumaon hills, in the early years of the 20th century, through the eyes of four telented and highly individualistic women. |
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... natural in what was after all the premier spot of pilgrimage for mainland India . But to my novelist's mind , my over - imaginative fictionalising mind , some part of this vitality and independence of thought belongs to the intrinsic nature ...
... natural in what was after all the premier spot of pilgrimage for mainland India . But to my novelist's mind , my over - imaginative fictionalising mind , some part of this vitality and independence of thought belongs to the intrinsic nature ...
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... natural forest rights of the local people . As in the rest of India , nationalist feeling ignited the imagination of the people of Kumaon . The Kumaonis are a martial race , and the Second World War had its impact in these remote ...
... natural forest rights of the local people . As in the rest of India , nationalist feeling ignited the imagination of the people of Kumaon . The Kumaonis are a martial race , and the Second World War had its impact in these remote ...
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... nature , its strengths , its weaknesses , its occasional pettiness . I am always amazed by the anger and vindictiveness that lies latent in human nature especially in women . Many years ago , when I was still a young woman , an ...
... nature , its strengths , its weaknesses , its occasional pettiness . I am always amazed by the anger and vindictiveness that lies latent in human nature especially in women . Many years ago , when I was still a young woman , an ...
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