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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Acknowledgments
A Note on Language
Epigraph
Part One: Mountains
Travelers’ Tales
Present at the Creation
The Water Pyramid
The Cow’s Mouth
The Temple on the Rock
Cave Dwellers
The Raja of Harsil
Winter Quarters
Nomads
Big Fish Story
The Age of Kali
All You Need Is Love
The Happy Escapee
Good Vibrations
From Ocean to Sky
Going to Extremes
Gateway to God
Why Shiva Turned Blue
Mrs. Chaurey’s Glasses
The Best Medicine
Fizzy Whizzy
Part Two: Plains
Capstan Baba
Butchers
Massacre Ghat
Manchester of the East
Scavengers
Mothers and Children
Press One for Mangoes
Bookworms
At Barnett’s Hotel
Allahabadminton
The Moustache Dancer
The Abode of Happiness
The Traffic in Mirganj
The Invisible River
Desolate and Ruinous
Armpit of the Universe
The View from the Train
Jewel of the Ear
Sacred Fire
The Spectacle of Wood
The Commission Men
Ashes to Ashes
Slowly-Slowly
Keepers of the Flame
In the Tiger House
I Now Feel I Have Seen India
The Poets of Benares
The Lost Boy
Ganga Fuji Raga
The Mother’s Lap
Guru of the World
The Field of Fulfillment
Two Brothers
Heritage
The Forest of Remembrance
Part Three: Delta
Bored in Bihar
India’s Coral Strand
Easy Like Water
The Impossible City
Where You Are From?
Women of the Delta
The Will of Allah
Fields of Salt
The Tiger of Chandpai
On the Beach
Holi on the Hooghly
The World of Apu
The Aging Prostitute
A Walk in the Park
Going Native
Last Jewel in the Crown
Packed and Pestilential
Multiple Personalities
The Bollywood Goddess
The Coin Collector
Photos
Also by George Black
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