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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - 1 2 Paranjape, Makarand R. (2013). ""East Indian" Cosmopolitanism: Henry Derozio's Fakeer of Jungheera and the Birth of Indian Modernity". Making India: Colonialism, National Culture, and the Afterlife of Indian English Authority. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. pp. 41–64. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4661-9_3. ISBN 978-94-007-4660-2.
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- ↑ Chaudhuri, Rosinka (2004-08-01). "An Ideology of Indianness: The Construction of Colonial/Communal Stereotypes in the Poems of Henry Derozio". Studies in History. 20 (2): 167–187. doi:10.1177/025764300402000201. ISSN 0257-6430. S2CID 162248483.
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