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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2002]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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