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The Age of Kali: Travels and Encounters in India
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Featured in its are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds; a group of vegetarian terrorists intent on destroying India's first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet; and a palace where port and cigars are still carried to guests on a miniature silver steam train. Dalrymple meets such figures as Imran Khan and Benazir Bhutto; he witnesses the macabre nightly offering to the bloodthirsty goddess Parashakti - She Who Is Seated on a Throne of Five Corpses; he experiences caste massacres in the badlands of Bihar and dines with a drug baron on the North-West Frontier; he discovers such oddities as the terrorist apes of Jaipur and the shrine where Lord Krishna is said to make love every night to his 16,108 wives and 64,732 milkmaids.
COVER: Paperback
CONDITION: Pre-Loved
TYPE OF BOOK: Fiction
SUB-TYPE: Literary Fiction
ISBN: 9780006547754
LANGUAGE: English
SUGGESTED AGE LEVEL: Adult
AUTHOR'S NAME: William Dalrymple
NO OF PAGES: 416
PUBLISHER NAME: Published June 21st 1999 Flamingo (first published 1998)
Featured in its are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds; a group of vegetarian terrorists intent on destroying India's first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet; and a palace where port and cigars are still carried to guests on a miniature silver steam train. Dalrymple meets such figures as Imran Khan and Benazir Bhutto; he witnesses the macabre nightly offering to the bloodthirsty goddess Parashakti - She Who Is Seated on a Throne of Five Corpses; he experiences caste massacres in the badlands of Bihar and dines with a drug baron on the North-West Frontier; he discovers such oddities as the terrorist apes of Jaipur and the shrine where Lord Krishna is said to make love every night to his 16,108 wives and 64,732 milkmaids.
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COVER: Paperback
CONDITION: Pre-Loved
TYPE OF BOOK: Fiction
SUB-TYPE: Literary Fiction
ISBN: 9780006547754
LANGUAGE: English
SUGGESTED AGE LEVEL: Adult
AUTHOR'S NAME: William Dalrymple
NO OF PAGES: 416
PUBLISHER NAME: Published June 21st 1999 Flamingo (first published 1998)
SKU AD21452
Book Condition: Pre-Loved
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