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Miles and miles of flat green fields and then Dewas. Rising sheer above it like a huge fist clenched at the top is Devi. A town lost in its own legends, ignored by gypsies. The giant lorries rolling along the Bombay-Agra Road scarcely noticed it a few years ago. Indeed no one would have noticed it if E. M. Forster had not decided to pay a second visit to it in 1921. Perhaps he had to go back to see if it really existed. It could have been an image that had lingered after an evening at Sadlers Wells. During his first visit it had the appearance of a Gilbert and Sullivan1 kingdom.
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Birje-Patil, J. (1979). Forster and Dewas. In: Das, G.K., Beer, J. (eds) E. M. Forster: A Human Exploration. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04359-0_10
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