A superb, thick and gorgeous book on Benares (Varanasi) illustrated with over 600 colour and black and white photographs (from the 1950's up to the late 1990's), and including a long and comprehensive text section, index, map, glossary and bibliography. A rare combibnation of creative photography and cultural history put together by one man, this book both visually and textually is the most massive presentation of this extraordinary city ever attempted.
