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” Ancestral Voices is an extraordinary attempt to theorise how playfull a writer represents the world through the word by creatively interacting with Vac (the primal word or in coleridge’s terms-primary imagination). To decolonise an Indian mind, he retrieves and reinterprets the relevance of the voices of the vedic/upanishadic seers, the seer-poets of the post vedic epic tradition, the classical aestheticians, and the protestant bhakti poets, often juxtaposing them with the exponents of what is known as the western canon. The subtext of Shah’s critical endeavour is to highlight the centrality of India’s spiritual traditions in the reconstruction of the national imaginary in marga (sanskritik) and desi (oral, bhasha or popular) litareture. “
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