Nine Lives In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

Name: Nine Lives In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
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ISBN: 9780307272829

ISBN-10: 0307272826

ISBN-13: 9780307272829

Edition: 2010

Authors: William Dalrymple

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From the author ofThe Last Mughal(ldquo;A compulsively readable masterpiecerdquo;-The New York Review of Books), a mesmerizing book that explores how traditional religions are observed in todayrsquo;s India, revealing ways of life that we might otherwise never have known. A middle-class woman from Calcutta finds unexpected fulfillment living as a Tantric in an isolated, skull-filled cremation ground . . . A prison warder from Kerala is worshipped as an incarnate deity for two months of every year . . . A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment watching her closest friend ritually starve herself to death . . . The twenty-third in a centuries-old line of idol makers struggles to reconcile…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/15/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Map


Introduction



The Nun's Tale



The Dancer of Kannur



The Daughters of Yellamma



The Singer of Epics



The Red Fairy



The Monk's Tale



The Maker of Idols



The Lady Twilight



The Song of the Blind Minstrel


Glossary


Bibliography


Index