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Nine Nights of Power: Durgā, Dolls, and Darbārs
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 738–740.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Vineet Gairola Nine Nights of Power: Durgā, Dolls, and Darbārs . Edited by Ute Hüsken , Vasudha Narayanan , and Astrid Zotter . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2021 . vi, 308 pp. ISBN: 9781438484075 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 The Great...
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The Durga Temple at Aihole: A Historiographical Study
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (4): 1215–1216.
Published: 01 November 1998
...Ajay J. Sinha The Durga Temple at Aihole: A Historiographical Study . By Gary Michael Tartakov . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1997 . xvii, 153 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1215 sign of his political...
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Durga/Umayi: A Novel
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (2): 588–590.
Published: 01 May 2007
...Susan Rodgers Durga/Umayi: A Novel . By Y. B. Mangunwijaya . Translated by Ward Keeler . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2004 . 212 pp. $20.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 State control of artistic expression...
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Tracking the Goddess: Religion, Community, and Identity in the Durga Puja Ceremonies of Nineteenth-Century Calcutta
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 919–962.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Tithi Bhattacharya Abstract Focusing on colonial Calcutta in the later decades of the nineteenth century, this essay explores the evolution of a particular festival, the Durga Puja, to explore the ways in which religion negotiated its place in the ideological determinants of modernity. The essay...
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Figure 1. Figure of Durga at Aihole temple, erected by the Chalukya dynasty in the sixth and seventh centuries CE. Reproduced from Zimmer ( 1968 ), plate 117.
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Figure 2. Figure of Durga at the Kailashnath temple, 750–850 CE.
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Woodcut of Durga from nineteenth-century Calcutta by Ramdhan Swarnakar. “We...
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Figure 3. Woodcut of Durga from nineteenth-century Calcutta by Ramdhan Swarnakar. “Western” influence is evident in the use of flag-bearing fairies and unicorns. Reproduced from Arun Nag ( 1991 ).
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Unrolling a Narrative Scroll: Artistic Practice and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Bengal
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 835–871.
Published: 01 August 2003
... University . Chaliha Jaya , and Gupta Bunny . 1990 a. “Chitpur.” In The Past . Vol. 1 of Calcutta, the Living City , edited by Chaudhuri Sukanta . Calcutta : Oxford University Press . Chaliha Jaya , and Gupta Bunny . 1990 b. “Durga Puja in Calcutta.” In The Present...
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The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (4): 1213–1215.
Published: 01 November 1998
... The Durga Temple at Aihole: A Historiographical Study. By G A R Y MICHAEL TARTAKOV. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xvii, 153 pp. $29-95 (cloth). This book examines more than a century of art historical scholarship on the famous Durga temple at Aihole in the Karnataka region of southern India...
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Pūjā Associations in West Bengal
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (3): 579–594.
Published: 01 May 1969
... of the image of Saraśvati , a child is helped by the priest to trace few letters of the alphabet on the floor with a chalk. In Bengal the ceremony is called haté kharhi , or “the chalk in hand” ceremony. 11 kālī is another form of Shakti , and is of the same order of divinity as Durgā . However...
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Worship of the Goddess According to the Kālikāpurāṇa
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 36 (1): 172–174.
Published: 01 November 1976
... of the Kalika Purarja, own balanced position, which seeks to take ac- describing the worship of the goddess. Durga Puja count of legend, textual hint, and traditions from is the preeminent ritual of contemporary Bengali all over India. The remainder of the introduction Hindus; Bengali pandits have described...
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Myth, Cult and Symbols of Śākta Hinduism: A Study of the Indian Mother Goddess
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (3): 597–599.
Published: 01 May 1979
.... This exposition of the cult of the goddess Durga-Kall provides an illuminating and complexly interwoven portrait of the main structures cosmic-mythic (KallSakti), ritual-cultic (Kall-Puja) and eschatological-symbolic (Kall-Yuga) of the goddess. A primary aim is to seek and to demonstrate the structural...
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A Case of Anomalous Values in Indian Civilization: Meat-Eating Among the Kanya-Kubja Brahmans of Katyayan Gotra
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 25 (2): 229–240.
Published: 01 February 1966
... (immediate ancestor), the latter are used as a means of ascertaining it. 6 It is a religious sect which concentrates on worshipping Divine Power (variously called Shakti, Durga, Mata, Devi, Jagdamba, etc.) through rituals which might be varied and even contradictory in character. Meat-eating...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 877–880.
Published: 01 November 2007
... in the Durga Puja festival in nineteenth-century Calcutta. Bhattacharya argues that a nationalist and deeply gendered Hindu revivalist rhetoric linked public political discourse to private domestic practices. The figure of the goddess Durga, says Bhattacharya, came to combine nationalist desire and political...
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Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (1): 185–186.
Published: 01 February 1987
..., are also mentioned. The first chapter offers brief portraits of the goddesses in the earliest Vedic literature. This is followed by chapters on SrI-Laksmi, Parvati, SarasvatT, Slta, Radha, Durga, Kali, the "great goddess" (MahadevI), and the Matrkas. There is one chapter on Tara, Chinnamasta...
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Célébrer le pouvoir: Dasaĩ, une fête royale au Népal
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 575–577.
Published: 01 May 1998
..., Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'homme de Paris, 1996. 367 pp. This book is a collection of essays, written by a group of authors, on the DasaT rituals, as performed in different areas of Nepal. DasaT is the celebration of the victory 576 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES of the Goddess Durga over...
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Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal: The Fortunes of Hindu Festivals
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 290–292.
Published: 01 February 2012
... 2012 This pioneering work presents a historical account of Bengal's three major annual festivals dedicated to the goddesses Durgā, Kālī and Jagaddhātrī. With meticulous detail, Rachel McDermott presents the breath-taking panorama of celebration, social jousting and communal bonding...
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Myths, Saints and Legends in Medieval India
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 1144–1146.
Published: 01 November 1997
... of Visnu's feast days with those dedicated to Durga/KalT. Vaudeville's recounting of Krishna Gopala's birth myth transcends sampraday accounts to assert the many and variable connections between Krishna and "the dark Goddess" (pp. 149 51) in puranas and other texts. Her conclusion that Radha is a less...
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All the Mothers Are One: Hindu India and the Cultural Reshaping of Psychoanalysis
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (1): 256–258.
Published: 01 February 1994
... Kurtz calls "separation-integration," and corresponds, in his terms, to the "Ek-Hi" or "One-Alone" phase, the Hindu counterpart for the preOedipal phase. In the "Durga Complex," the Hindu counterpart for the Oedipal Complex, socialization processes require that the child merge with the group...
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Muslim Endowments and Society in British India
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (1): 186–188.
Published: 01 February 1987
... lie in collecting the curriculum vitae of a plethora of goddesses in one coherent volume, in interpreting their significance to their devotees (the chapter on Kali is particularly striking), and in retrieving several visions and models of the feminine from within the tradition. His portrayal of Durga...
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