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The stories reproduced here reveal the varied faces of the ascetic in the Hindu imagination : potentially a wise saint, he may well be a scoundrel intent on duping disciples. In contextualizing the tales and their teller - a self-professed agrambagram sadhu - narayan explores the Indian ascetic tradition that connects forest-dwelling sages of antiquity with cosmopolitan Gurus surrounded by foreign disciples. The meticulous review of interdisciplinary scholarship ...