'The Apparition' by MG Vassanji: Amid appearance and reality

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. LP Hartley’s observation is an apt point of departure for MG Vassanji’s ‘The Apparition’, set in 13th-century Delhi under the ageing Sultan Alauddin Khilji. At once historical, speculative and allegorical, the novel uses medieval…

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