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A princely impostor? : the strange and universal history of the Kumar of Bhawal /

In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal--a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of twenty-six. So began one of the most extraord...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chatterjee, Partha, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2002]
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505 0 |a Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter One: The Facts of the Matter -- Chapter Two: An Estate Called Bhawal -- Chapter Three: On Hunting and Other Sports -- Chapter Four: What Happened in Darjeeling? -- Chapter Five: First Brush with the Law -- Chapter Six: The House on Lansdowne Road -- Chapter Seven: A Fondness for Miracles -- Chapter Eight: The Identity Puzzle -- Chapter Nine: The Trial Begins -- Chapter Ten: Darjeeling: The Plaintiff's Case 
505 8 |a Chapter Eleven: Experts on Recognition -- Chapter Twelve: For the Defense -- Chapter Thirteen: The Climax -- Chapter Fourteen: Reasonings -- Chapter Fifteen: The Judgment -- Chapter Sixteen: The Appeal -- Chapter Seventeen: Razor's Edge -- Chapter Eighteen: The Decision -- Chapter Nineteen: To London and Back -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index 
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