Samskara
A Rite for a Dead Man
U.R.Anantha Murthy(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published in December 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
180 pages
978-0-19-565188-1 (ISBN)
Description
Samskara is both a religious novel - about a decaying Brahmin colony in a south Indian village - and a contemporary poetic reworking of ancient Hindu themes and myths. Its central event is a death, which brings in its wake a plague, moral chaos and a rebirth. Originally published in Kannada in 1965, this novel soon became enormously popular with general readers and critics. The present English translation has been widely acclaimed, and the novel has been translated into several foreign languages as well as filmed. This educational edition has been prepared for undergraduate students, with exercises comprising a variety of questions.
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Edition
Educational ed
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Readers of novels; people interested in the caste system; anthropologists and historians.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
126 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-565188-1 (9780195651881)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
Samskara
AFTERWORD by A.K. Ramanujan
'In Conversation with the Author' by Susheela Punitha
NOTES
Samskara
AFTERWORD by A.K. Ramanujan
'In Conversation with the Author' by Susheela Punitha
NOTES