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An archival project to locate real-world places in fiction.

Cities in Fiction is an archival project to locate real-world places in literature. It has been created to enable readers, writers, researchers, scholars, educators, and curriculum builders — across disciplines — to think about their interest in South Asia, particularly in Indian cities, through fiction. Literature gives us an insight into real-world places: landscapes, regions, cities, towns, villages, and even no man’s land. One only has to think of works of famous authors - Krishna Sobti’s rural Punjab in undivided India, Sri Lal Shukla’s Uttar Pradesh of mis-governed panchayats,…

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