TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anantha Murthy,U.R.
AU  - Ramanujan,A.K.
TI  - Samskara: a rite for a dead man 
T2  - New York Review Books classics
SN  - 9781590179123
AV  - PL4659.R165.S267 2016 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York Review Books
KW  - Funeral rites and ceremonies
KW  - India
KW  - Fiction
N1  - "Originally published in English in 1976 by Oxford University Press India and reprinted here by arrangement with the publisher"--Title page verso; 1; 2
N2  - Samskara is one of the acknowledged masterpieces of modern world literature, a book to set beside Chinua Achebe s Things Fall Apart and Tayeb Salih s Season of Migration to the North. Taking its name from a Sanskrit word that means rite of passage but also moment of recognition, it begins when Naranappa, an inhabitant of a small south Indian town and a renegade Brahmin who has scandalously flouted the rules of caste and purity for years, eating meat, drinking alcohol, marrying beneath him, mocking God, unexpectedly falls ill and dies
ER  -