Nine lives: in search of the sacred in modern India (Record no. 1091)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781408879818 |
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| Classification number | 294.092254 |
| Item number | DAL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dalrymple, William |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Nine lives: in search of the sacred in modern India |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Bloomsbury Publishing Pvt. Ltd. |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2015 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xviii, 284 p. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price type code | INR |
| Price amount | 499.00 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Description<br/><br/>Three brothers from a remote village in the Himalayas are driven by poverty to become monks. One becomes a famous masked dancer; the second an accomplished player of the Tibetan temple trumpet; and the third a great Buddhist scholar. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. A woman leaves her middle class family in Calcutta and her job in a jute factory, only to find unexpected love and fulfillment living as a tantric in a skull-filled hut in remote a cremation ground. A prison warder from Kerala becomes for two months of the year a temple dancer and is worshipped as an incarnate deity; then, at the end of February each year, he returns to prison. An idol maker, the thirty-fifth of a long line of sculptors going back to the legendary Chola bronze makers, regards creating Gods as one of the holiest callings in India, but has to reconcile himself to his son who only wants to study computer engineering. An illiterate goat herd from Rajasthan keeps alive an ancient 200,000-stanza sacred epic that he, virtually alone, still knows by heart. A devadasi - or temple prostitute - initially resists her own initiation into sex work, yet pushes both her daughters into a trade she regards as a sacred calling.<br/><br/>Nine people, nine lives. Each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story.Exquisite and mesmerizing, and told with an almost biblical simplicity, William Dalrymple's first travel book in a decade explores how traditional forms of religious life in South Asia have been transformed in the vortex of the region's rapid change. Nine Lives is a distillation of twenty-five years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions, taking you deep into worlds that you would never have imagined even existed. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | India |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Religious biography |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Religion |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Social conditions |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | IN29522 | 15-02-2021 | Indian Institute of Management LRC | Indian Institute of Management LRC | General Stacks | 02/23/2021 | Overseas Press India Private | 349.30 | 2 | 1 | 294.092254 DAL | 001136 | 09/29/2023 | 09/15/2023 | 1 | 499.00 | 02/23/2021 | Book |