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Banaras
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LastDodo number
3728395
Area
Books
Title
Banaras
subtitle
Shiva's Eternal City
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Illustrator
Year
1993
Type
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First edition
Type of book
Number of pages
96
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Dimensions
24.0 x 32.0 cm
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Varanasi is the maddening, mysterious nerve center of India's spiritual life. It is also an intense paradigm of modern India's five thousand years of conflict with its fraught but splendid past. This book attempts an unusual exploration of Varanasi's ideas, events and places that make the city so remarkable. Specially, it focuses on its people the Sanyasis, the priests, the young Banarasis who sustain and perpetuate the concepts of life and death that animate their city
