Name: Banaras: Sacred City of India
Author: Raghubir Singh
ISBN: 9780500241325

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Banaras: Sacred City of India

Photographer
Raghubir Singh
Publisher

Thames & Hudson
ISBN

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Publication Year

1987
Edition

First Edition

Hardcover English 120 pages 26.67 x 2.54 x 31.75 cm 1.28 kg

Description

Banaras: Sacred City of India is Raghubir Singh’s ninth book, presenting a profound visual study of Varanasi, the holiest of the seven sacred cities in Hinduism. Through 96 full-page color photographs, Singh captures the city’s complex ritualscapes, from the bathing ghats along the Ganges to the tangled, ancient lanes. The book documents the daily life, Hindu festivals, and the spiritual “joie de vivre” unique to the city. Featuring an introduction by Singh himself, the work emphasizes his “Ganges side of modernism,” blending traditional Indian aesthetics with Western modernist photography.

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