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the true state of my beloved country and the true causes of our poverty
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This phrase focuses on two connected questions: what the speaker’s country is really like, and what has caused its poverty. “True state” suggests looking beyond appearances, while “true causes” points to the underlying reasons rather than merely describing the hardship.
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- Dinyar Patel, “The Transnational Career of the ‘Indian Edison’” (Bombay Before Mumbai, Oxford University Press)
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