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Nine lives : in search of the sacred in modern India / William Dalrymple.

By: Dalrymple, William.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010Description: xvii, 275 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780307272829 (trade); 0307272826.Subject(s): India -- Religion | Religious biography -- India | India -- Religion | Religious biography -- IndiaDDC classification: 294/.092/254
Contents:
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.
Summary: Explores how traditional religious life in India has undergone change amid economic development around the turn of the twenty-first century, examining the lives of various religious adherents, including a sacred dancer, a Sufi mystic, and a Tantric practitioner.
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Explores how traditional religious life in India has undergone change amid economic development around the turn of the twenty-first century, examining the lives of various religious adherents, including a sacred dancer, a Sufi mystic, and a Tantric practitioner.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-267) and index.

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.

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