Sathya Sai Baba, who died on Sunday, probably aged 84, was India's most famous, and most controversial, Swami or holy man, and one of the most enigmatic and remarkable religious figures of the last century.

To his followers, Sai Baba was a living god; to his detractors, he was a charlatan, albeit one of considerable ingenuity and enormous personal charisma and power.

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