Nine lives : in search of the sacred in modern India /
9 lives
William Dalrymple.
- New Delhi : New York ; Bloomsbury, Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
- xvii, 284 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
First published: London : Bloomsbury, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references 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.
A study of the ways in which traditional forms of religious life in India have been transformed in the vortex of the region's rapid change.