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Title: Revelry, rivalry, and longing for the Goddesses of Bengal the fortunes of Hindu festivals / Rachel Fell McDermott.
Main Entry: McDermott, Rachel Fell.
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Columbia University Press New York,
Publication Date: c2011.
Publication Place: New York :
ISBN: 9780231129183 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231129190 (pbk.)
9780231527873 (e-book)
Subject: Durgā-pūjā (Hindu festival) -- India -- West Bengal.
Jagaddhātrī-pūjā (Hindu festival) -- India -- West Bengal.
Kālī-pūjā (Hindu festival) -- India -- West Bengal.
West Bengal (India) -- Religious life and customs.
Electronic books.
Contents: 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.
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