The twice-born : life and death on the Ganges / Aatish Taseer.

• Foreigners in their own land -- Summer. The color-filled eleventh -- The hour of juncture -- The rape and the seduction -- The conqueror of destiny -- The modern traditionalist -- Winter. The revolutionary Brahmin -- The community of death -- The isle of rough magic -- The dharma of place -- The protection of the seed.

• A portrait of the collision between tradition and modernity in India, as told through the lives of the Brahmins in the holy city of Benares. 

Ämnesord

Brahmaner  (sao)

Sociala förhållanden  (sao)

Kastväsen  (sao)

Kulturkonflikter  (sao)

Social förändring  (sao)

Brahmans  -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) -- Social conditions. (LCSH)

Brahmans  -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) -- Social life and customs. (LCSH)

Caste  -- India. (LCSH)

Culture conflict  -- India. (LCSH)

Social change  -- India. (LCSH)

Brahmans  (lcsh)

Social conflict  (lcsh)

Culture conflict  (lcsh)

Social change  (lcsh)

Caste  (lcsh)

Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India)  -- Social conditions. (LCSH)

India  -- Social conditions -- 1947- (LCSH)

Indien  -- Varanasi (sao)

Personnamn

Taseer, Aatish, 1980- -- Travel -- India.

Klassifikation

DS432.B73 (LCC)

954.053 (DDC)

Koba.57 (kssb/8 (machine generated))