A literary device in which a writer makes a brief or indirect reference to a person, place, event, or work outside the text. In Banalata Sen, Das alludes to historical figures such as Ashoka and Bimbisara, and ancient cities such as Sravasti and Vidarbha, to create a sense of vast historical time.
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