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The twice-born : life and death on the Ganges / Aatish Taseer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taseer, Aatish, 1980- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taseer, Aatish, 1980---Travel--India.
- Taseer, Aatish.
- Taseer, Aatish, 1980-.
- Brahmans--India--Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)--Social conditions.
- Brahmans.
- Brahmans--India--Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)--Social life and customs.
- Culture conflict.
- Manners and customs.
- Social conditions.
- Travel.
- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India)--Social conditions.
- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India).
- Caste--India.
- Caste.
- India.
- Culture conflict--India.
- Social change--India.
- Social change.
- India--Social conditions--1947-.
- Brahmans--Social conditions.
- Brahmans--Social life and customs.
- India--Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh).
- Local Subjects:
- India.
- India--Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh).
- Physical Description:
- 242 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
- Summary:
- "A portrait of the collision between tradition and modernity in India, as told through the lives of the Brahmins in the holy city of Benares"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Foreigners in their own land
- Summer. The color-filled eleventh
- The hour of juncture
- The rape and the seduction
- The conqueror of destiny
- The modern traditionalist
- Winter. The revolutionary Brahmin
- The community of death
- The isle of rough magic
- The dharma of place
- The protection of the seed.
- ISBN:
- 9780374279608
- 0374279608
- OCLC:
- 1060180543
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