Nine Lives
In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · June 14, 2011
From the author of The Last Mughal, an enlightening book that explores with remarkable compassion and expansive insight nine varieties of religious devotion in India today.
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- Who it’s for
- A compact, searching look at sacred life in modern India.
- Genres
- Eastern Religions, India & South Asia Travel, Religious Lives
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, June 14, 2011
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From the author of The Last Mughal, an enlightening book that explores with remarkable compassion and expansive insight nine varieties of religious devotion in India today. In portraits of people we might otherwise never know William Dalrymple distills his twenty-five years of travel in India to explore the challenges faced by practitioners of traditional forms of faith in contemporary India.
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For two months a year, a man in Kerala divides his time between jobs as a prison warden and a well-builder and his calling as an incarnate deity. A temple prostitute watches her two daughters die from AIDS after entering a trade she regards as a sacred calling. A Jain nun recalls the pain of watching her closest friend ritually starve herself to death. Together, these tales reveal the resilience of individuals in the face of the relentless onslaught of modernity, the enduring legacy of tradition, and the hope and honor that can be found even in the most unlikely places.
Sacred Routes
A compact, searching look at sacred life in modern India.
Come here for
- faith and travel braided together
- Dalrymple’s steady, observant guide-hand
Expect
- reflective, varied encounters
- religion treated as lived experience
Where it sits
| Eastern Religions | 55% |
|---|---|
| India & South Asia Travel | 55% |
| Religious Lives | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Religious Lives
- Mind & Spirit
- India & South Asia Travel
- Authors
- William Dalrymple
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- June 14, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Religious Lives