Nine Lives
of William Dalrymple
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From the author of The Last Mughal and In Xanadu, comes a mesmerizing book that explores how traditional religions are observed in todayâs 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 with his sonâs wish to study computer engineering . . . An illiterate goatherd keeps alive in his memory an ancient 200,000-stanza sacred epic . . . A temple prostitute, who resisted her own initiation into sex work, pushes her daughters into the trade she nonetheless regards as a sacred calling.William Dalrymple tells these stories, among others, with expansive insight and a spellbinding evocation of remarkable circumstance, giving us a dazzling travelogue of both place and spirit
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 284 pages
- Publisher Not informed
- Publication Date 2009
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9781408801536
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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