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Author	Taseer, Aatish, 1980-
Title	The twice-born : life and death on the Ganges / Aatish Taseer.
Publication Info.	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 2	954 T	IN LIBRARY

Edition	First edition.
Description	242 pages ; 24 cm
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.
	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-
Genre or Form	Travel writing.
Added Author	New York Society Library. Book Committee. 2019. ZNS
Added Title	Life and death on the Ganges
ISBN	9780374279608 (hardcover)
	0374279608 (hardcover)
Standard No.	40028967003

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