The Regional and the Universal: Reading Phanishwarnath Renu’s novel <em>Mailā āṃcal</em> on the occasion of his birth centenary

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Common names of authors and places are spelled in conventional Anglicized transcription. Otherwise I quote from Hindi according to IPA transliteration standard.-Thanks to Claus Peter Zoller, Madhu Singh, Linda Lane and Eleanor Coghill for their highly appreciated comments on earlier drafts of this paper and for the language check. Any remaining shortcoming is of course my own fault. 2 Translated by Indira Junghare 1991.