Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

From the author of The Last Mughal and In Xanadu, comes a mesmerizing book that explores how traditional religions are observed in today’s India, revealing ways of life that we might otherwise never h…

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