Benares

I myself had experienced a rhythmic synchronicity in Benares 30 years before that set my personal metronome to a new beat.

Perry Garfinkel: A Hind-Jew in India Perry Garfinkel 2010

The story's narrator is an extraterrestrial reincarnated as a human in Benares for the purpose of reaching enlightenment and gaining immortality.

Archive 2007-10-01 2007

The story's narrator is an extraterrestrial reincarnated as a human in Benares for the purpose of reaching enlightenment and gaining immortality.

Anthology Review: Writers of the Future Volume XXIII 2007

Represented in Benares; the pages listed - among a multitude of names - those groups of Nepalese in the holy city of Banaras who carried the name Naipal.

Nobel Lecture - Literature 2001 2001

A fellow in Benares had lost three girls from plague.

The World in Perspective 1930

His canvas on display at Janus was titled 'Benares' - an oil painting on canvas in brilliant shades of blue depicting the fusion of faiths in two shadowy silhouettes of temples on a riverbank in the city.

India eNews 2008

The place that he selected was ancient Sarnath, six miles from Benares, which is now a heap of ruins, in which British government experts are delving for remains of the great city that was founded six centuries before the Christian era.

The Critic in the Orient George Hamlin Fitch 1888

The people of Nepal profess the Hindu faith and have close relations with the Brahmins at Benares, which is the Rome, or the Mecca, of

Modern India William Eleroy Curtis 1880

Learning that there was no missionary at Allahabad, about seventy miles north-west of Benares, which is now the seat of Government for the

Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 James Kennedy 1857

Also known as Benares, the city - in the state of Uttar Pradesh, 670km 415 miles

BBC News - Home 2010