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Samskara · A Rite for a Dead Man by Ananthamurthy, U.R.; Ramanujan, A. K. is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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*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. The question of whether he should be buried as a Brahmin divides the other Brahmins in the village. For an answer they turn to Praneshacharyah, the most devout and respected member of their community, an ascetic who also tends religiously to his invalid wife.Praneshacharyah finds himself unable to provide the answer, though an answer is urgently needed since as he wonders and the villagers wait and the body festers, more and more people are falling sick and dying. But when Praneshacharyah goes to the temple to seek a sign from God, he discovers something else entirely—unless that something else is also God. * * *Samskara *is a tale of exis

Who reads Samskara · A Rite for a Dead Man?

Author

Ananthamurthy, U.R.; Ramanujan, A. K.

Publisher

NYRB Classics

Published

1965

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590179130

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Religion

Rating

3.87 / 5 (63 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14