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John Morley: “I find in it a chance of getting the Indian angle of vision, and I feel sometimes as if I were actually in the streets…”

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I find in it a chance of getting the Indian angle of vision, and I feel sometimes as if I were actually in the streets of Calcutta.
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John Morley

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Morley expresses his desire to understand Indian perspectives and experiences more deeply.

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