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Patil, a newspaper journalist in Bangalore, keeps running into Swamvajna, an old man from Dharamanatti in the Gokak region of north Karnataka, who tells him the village's past. Its feudal estate was founded by a fleeing Pindari chief who took the name Rango Patwardhan Desai, built a temple to his family deity Vitthala and gave it a great chariot. At the chariot festival Patil hears wandering Gondhali bards sing the story of the chariot and of the blood mark offered to it, and later meets Dyavappa, the last of a line bound to perform that rite. Told by several voices in the dialect of the Belagavi region, the novel sets the old order of caste, estate and ritual against the present.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

India

First published

2003 by Anandakanda Granthamale