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Page 85
... wrote to entertain , inform , and indirectly to instruct the readers through his creation , Elias set another goal for himself . He wrote in the Preface to the second impression of the Tales thus : Indeed , tales are always tales , but ...
... wrote to entertain , inform , and indirectly to instruct the readers through his creation , Elias set another goal for himself . He wrote in the Preface to the second impression of the Tales thus : Indeed , tales are always tales , but ...
Page 88
... wrote their plays with a mission : a concern for the traditional values of the Khasis . The distinctive features of the Khasi literature of the first one hundred years are the stress it puts directly and indirectly on the good life and ...
... wrote their plays with a mission : a concern for the traditional values of the Khasis . The distinctive features of the Khasi literature of the first one hundred years are the stress it puts directly and indirectly on the good life and ...
Page 197
... wrote : " Thence I play on this harp so that the Echo of the ancestors ' spiritual power may resound , the generations to come may awake and understand this . " 12 As the harp has body , strings and other parts to produce melody , Tham ...
... wrote : " Thence I play on this harp so that the Echo of the ancestors ' spiritual power may resound , the generations to come may awake and understand this . " 12 As the harp has body , strings and other parts to produce melody , Tham ...
Contents
THE ORAL TRADITION AND THE CHARACTER | 65 |
The Character of Khasi Literature 18411940 | 76 |
The Early Khasi Poetry | 93 |
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