Benares: The Sacred City of The Hindus

by M.A. Sherring

Written just after the freedom struggle of 1857 it offers a piercing insight into the culture of Benares as seen through the eyes of a European, telling why it has been for over two and a half thousand years a pre-eminent sacred city of Hindus.

283 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 1, 1996

About the author

Rev. M.A.Sherring, M.A., L.L.B. (1826-1880), was a missionary of the London Missionary Society