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A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal
A Princely Impostor The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal
Author: Partha Chatterjee
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 extraordinary legal cases in Indian history. The case w...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691090313
ISBN-10: 0691090319
Publication Date: 3/4/2002
Pages: 448
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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