Publisher's Synopsis
To the world, benares has been knownas the place of the greatest religious sanctity in all india -- that land,preeminently, where the religious element supervenes and transfuses itself intothe most ordinary vocations of daily life the author has put his fugitiverecollection into writing and feels conscious that a sketch like this may be ofinterest to those who proceed to that ancient place with an open mind and whohave no definite notion as to what in reality to expect to find there thisbook, first published in 1912, now brought in a new format withy some excellentphotographs of what benares was and is today, the city immortal.
