R.R. Sen

In wealth, population, dignity and sanctity Benares was among the foremost city of Asia according to Macaulay. As the oldest and only living city in existence where the ancient and the modern meet together. It stretches its memories to the ages of prehistoric antiquity and has managed no inevitable ravages of time and every other destructive agency. Speaking of its antiquity Mr. Sherring in his ‘Sacred City of the Hindus’, observes: “Twenty-five ...