Remembering the Veda: Accumulations of Interest

Simona Sawhney, Vanderbilt University

Copyright © 1999 by Simona Sawhney, all rights reserved. This article is reproduced with the kind permission of the editors of JOUVERT: Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

• Introduction
• Origins Revisited
• Linguistic Trouble
• Notes
• Works Cited

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