The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters by William Dalrymple, HarperCollins Publishers
The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters William Dalrymple, HarperCollins Publishers ebook
ISBN: 1864501723, 9781864501728
Format: pdf
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Page: 385
Covering distinct parts of India, Dalrymple's worldview on his Indian travels and encounters are rather limiting. Download The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters. William Dalrymple, HarperCollins Publishers. The result of 10 year's living and traveling throughout the Indian subcontinent, The Age of Kali emerges from Dalrymple's uneasy sense that the region is slipping into the most fearsome of all epochs in ancient Hindu cosmology: “the Kali impressive, from the vivid opening chapters portraying the lawless caste violence of Bihar, to interviews with the drug barons on the North-West Frontier, and Dalrymple's extraordinary encounter with the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. I also bought the following books a couple of days ago: Return of the Timewaster Letters – Robin Cooper. And, I was gifted Basharat Peer's Curfewed Night. Title: The Age of Kali – Indian Travels and Encounters. The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters, William Dalrymple; A fine travelogue, actually a collection of essay papers published over time in the media. The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters by William Dalrymple, HarperCollins Publishers. The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters. Knowing a bit about them It is believed that the 10th incarnation of Vishnu will come at the end of the Kali Yuga, which is the current and last epoch in the human cycle of existence, to bring us into Satya Yuga, or the age of enlightenment. The most promising part of William Dalrymple's 'The Age of Kali', is the contents page. In one of William Dalrymple's Indian travelogues (Age of Kali, I think), he encounters the same place, and at least at the time of that writing, it was still sadly going strong. When traveling through India you are sure to encounter the temples, idols and followers of the many gods that are part of the culture. The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters – William Dalrymple. Reading material: William Dalrymple's The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters (Oakland: Lonely Planet Publication, 2005). Impetus: Class, History of Modern India and South Asia. Publisher: Flamingo, 1999 (First published 1998). Indian Travels and Encounters, by William Dalrymple The brilliance of this book lies in its refusal to reflect any cultural pessimism. Shiva is the Other well-known gods are Ganesh, Parvati, Lakshmi, Durga, Hanuman, and Kali.