From the author of *The Last Mughal* ("A compulsively readable masterpiece" --*The New York Review of Books*), an exquisite, mesmerizing book that illuminates the remarkable ways in which traditional forms of religious life in India have been transformed in the vortex of the region's rapid change--a
The Sacred Game: The Role of the Sacred in the Genesis of Modern Literary Fictionby Cesáreo Bandera
✍ Scribed by Review by: Rowland A. Sherrill
- Book ID
- 124454294
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 323 KB
- Volume
- 76
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4189
- DOI
- 10.2307/1204334
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