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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9789353023881 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
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| Terms of availability |
Purchased |
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Mathrubhumi Books,Kaloor |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
920 |
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AAT |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Aatish Taseer |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
TWICE BORN : Life and Death on the Ganges |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Fourth Estate India |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2018/01/01 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Size of unit |
248 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, he was eighteen, the Westernized child of an Indian journalist and a Pakistani politician, raised among the intellectual and cultural elite of New Delhi. Nearly two decades later, Taseer leaves his life in Manhattan to go in search of the Brahmins, wanting to understand his own estrangement from India through their ties to tradition. Known as the twice-born – first into the flesh, and again when initiated into their vocation – the Brahmins are a caste devoted to sacred learning. But what Taseer finds in Benares, the holy city of death, is a window on an India as internally fractured as his own continent-bridging identity. At every turn, the seductive, homogenizing force of modernity collides with the insistent presence of the past. From the narrow streets of the temple town to a Modi rally in Delhi, among the blossoming cotton trees and the bathers and burning corpses of the Ganges, Taseer struggles to reconcile magic with reason, faith in tradition with hope for the future and the brutalities of the caste system, all the while challenging his own myths about himself, his past, and his countries old and new. The Twice-born is a deeply individual, acutely perceptive, urgently relevant book: it revolves around questions of culture and politics that are going to define our future as a nation. But beyond the inherent interest of the stories it tells, it is a wonderfully written book, characterised by the music of Aatish Taseer’s prose, which will haunt the reader long after the final page has been turned. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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Contents: <br/>Foreigners in their own land --<br/>The color-filled eleventh --<br/>The hour of juncture --<br/>The rape and the seduction --<br/>The conqueror of destiny --<br/>The modern traditionalist --<br/>The revolutionary Brahmin --<br/>The community of death --<br/>The isle of rough magic --<br/>The dharma of place --<br/>The protection of the seed. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Biography |
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Memoirs |
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Taseer, Aatish, -- 1980- -- Travel -- India. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Brahmans -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) -- Social conditions. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) |
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Submarine geology. |
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Ritual |
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Physical geography -- Asia. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Asia--India--Ganges River |
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Society --Culture |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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Lending |
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