Death in Banaras

Death in Banaras
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 348
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0521466253
ISBN-13 : 9780521466257
Rating : 4/5 (257 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Death in Banaras by : Jonathan P. Parry

Download or read book Death in Banaras written by Jonathan P. Parry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-07-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Hindu death rituals and the sacred specialists who perform them in the Indian city of Banaras.


Death in Banaras Related Books

Death in Banaras
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Jonathan P. Parry
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-07-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A study of Hindu death rituals and the sacred specialists who perform them in the Indian city of Banaras.
The City of Good Death
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Priyanka Champaneri
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-23 - Publisher: Restless Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Priyanka Champaneri’s transcendent debut novel brings us inside India’s holy city of Banaras,
Dead in Benares
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Ravi Nandan Singh
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-19 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Ethnographies fatefully rely on chance encounters and mysteriously so such encounters come true. "Dead in Banaras" is an instance of just such a fateful chance
The Twice-Born
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Aatish Taseer
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-05 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient custo
Banaras
Language: en
Pages: 382
Authors: Diana L. Eck
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-05 - Publisher: Knopf

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The sacred city of Banāras on the River Ganges is one of the oldest living cities in the world—as old as Jerusalem, Athens, and Peking. It is the place where