Revelry, rivalry, and longing for the Goddesses of Bengal the fortunes of Hindu festivals /
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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New York :
Columbia University Press New York,
c2011.
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Sommario:
- Pūjā origins and elite politics
- The goddess in colonial and postcolonial history
- Durgā the daughter : folk and familial traditions
- The artistry of Durgā and Jagaddhātrī
- Durgā on the Titanic : politics and religion in the Pūjā
- The "orientalist Kālī" : a Tantric icon comes alive
- Approaches to Kālī Pūjā in Bengal
- Controversies and the goddess
- Deva in the diaspora
- Appendix : an overview of the press in Bengal up to 1947.