History

Neranya is a reimagined version of an amputee (also called Naranya) represented in W. C. Morrow’s 1889 fictional short story “His Unconquerable Enemy”. In Morrow’s original tale, Naranya is a violent tempered and vengeful servant in colonial Calcutta (Kolkata), who suffers a series of limb amputations as punishments for increasingly brutal crimes. Neranya is presented very differently here as we do not wish to support racial and disability stereotypes from the nineteenth century. For more, see Ryan Sweet’s free 2022 book Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture.

Backstory

In Calcutta, Neranya’s leg was amputated as a cruel punishment ordered by the Raj.
Start with £5.