Nine lives
Subtitle: in search of the sacred in modern India
By: William Dalrymple
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780307272829
Subjects: Religion; Religious biography
Other titles: 9 lives
Description: 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.
Notes: First published: London : Bloomsbury, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: The nun's tale; title: The dancer of Kannur; title: The daughters of Yellamma; title: The singer of epics; title: The red fairy; title: The monk's tale; title: The maker of idols; title: The lady twilight; title: The song of the blind minstrel.