Title The twice-born : life and death on the Ganges / Aatish Taseer.

Publication Info.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	954.053 TASEER	Check Shelf
Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department	954.05 TASEER	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction	954.0532 TASEER	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	242 pages ; 24 cm
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.
Subject	Taseer, Aatish, 1980- -- Travel -- India.
	Taseer, Aatish, 1980- (OCoLC)fst01917322
	Brahmans -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) -- Social conditions.
	Brahmans -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) -- Social life and customs.
	Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) -- Social conditions.
	Caste -- India.
	Culture conflict -- India.
	Social change -- India.
	India -- Social conditions -- 1947-
	Brahmans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00837541
	Brahmans -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst00837542
	Caste. (OCoLC)fst00848395
	Culture conflict. (OCoLC)fst00885099
	Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
	India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
	India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) (OCoLC)fst01313078
	India.
	Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India)
Chronological Term	Since 1947
Standard No.	40028967003
ISBN	9780374279608 (hardcover)
	0374279608 (hardcover)

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