Knowing DIL Das: Stories of a Himalayan Hunter

by Joseph S. Alter

Book Overview

Dil Das was a poor farmer--an untouchable--living near Mussoorie, a colonial hill station in the Himalayas. As a boy he became acquainted with a number of American missionary children attending a boarding school in town and, over the years, developed close friendships with them and, eventually, with their sons. The basis for these friendships was a common passion for hunting. This passion and the friendships it made possible came to dominate Dil...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812217128
• ISBN13: 9780812217124
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"