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The use of the phrase “thrice-born” in the title of this introduction has connotations of uneasy or interrupted beginnings. Perhaps we should start by clarifying that “thrice-born” here bears no relation to the Sanskrit word dvija or “twice-born” or the title of Meenakshi Mukherjee’s (1971) book on Indian English novels, The Twice Bor