Banaras, City of Light

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Columbia University Press, 1999 - 427 pages
"In BANARAS, Diana Eck . . . has written a notable book about this greatest of Indian pilgrimage sites. . . . Her brilliant, comprehensive book seems likely to remain for a long time the definitive work on this great Indian city".--WASHINGTON POST. 61 photos. 7 maps.

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IV
3
V
43
VI
94
VII
146
VIII
211
X
252
XI
283
XII
304
XVII
360
XVIII
362
XIX
364
XX
367
XXI
369
XXII
379
XXIII
399
XXIV
407

XIII
324
XIV
347
XV
350
XVI
358
XXV
409
XXVI
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About the author (1999)

Diana L. Eck is professor of comparative religion and Indian studies and director of The Pluralism Project at Harvard University. She is the author of many books, including Dar ́san: Seeing the Divine Image in India and the editor of On Common Ground: World Religions in America, a multimedia CD-ROM, both published by Columbia.

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