...Joseph T. O'Connell Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 The Sword and the Flute: Kālī and Krsna, Dark Visions of the Terrible and the Sublime in Hindu Mythology . By David R. Kinsley . Berkeley , University of California Press , 1975 . viii, 168 pp. Notes, Works...

...Suchitra Samanta Abstract K ālī , the Hindu goddess ‘Time,’ is a ubiquitous presence in contemporary rural and urban Bengali life and occupies a historic place as Calcutta's patron deity. Her prototypes go back to pre-Vedic India (Kinsley 1977:90; MacKenzie-Brown 1985:111). Kālī was incorporated...

...Malcolm McLean Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Singing to the Goddess: Poems to Kālī and Umā from Bengal . By Rachel Fell McDermott . New York : Oxford University Press , 2001 . 189 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 299 I...

...David L. Haberman Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna . By Jeffrey J. Kripal . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1995 . xxii, 386 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997...

...Carl Olson Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali's Child Revisited . By Swami Tyagananda and Pravrajika Vrajaprana . Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass Publishers , 2010 . xxi, 410 pp. $56.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 On the back cover...

... the administrative and political gap the Jama'at-e-Islami. If that happens, then "Bangali" will surely be replaced by "Bangladeshi," and NGOs like Proshika will find themselves even more embattled. RITU MENON Kali for Women Landscapes and Lives: Environmental Dispatches on Rural India. By M U K U L SHARMA. New Delhi...

...Kali Charan Bahl The Vīsaḷadevarāsa : A Restoration of the Text . By John D. Smith . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications 26), 1976 . viii, 335 pp. Glossary, Index. $32.50 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978...

... their husbands' feet, gory goddesses whose standard diet is blood-on-the-rocks, graceful and gracious beings who radiate auspiciousness, goddesses on the fringes of "civilization," and those who embody the arts and culture. Kinsley's study builds on some of his earlier work (The Sword and the Flute: Kali...

... 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, Kālīpūjā has the history of having been a non-Brahmanic ceremony. It later became included...

... or offices at their disposal). I, of course, dissent from Dr. Leonard's observation that Munshi Kali Prasad's "early efforts had aimed at social reform through Sanskritization of the Kayastha community" (p. 202). Kali Prasad (himself an early product of the Government Normal School in Benares, and briefly...

...Lakshmi Holmström The Slate of Life: More Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of India . Edited by Kali for Women. 2nd ed. New York : Feminist Press , 1994 . 131 pp. $12.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1135 rise...

... of hill stations, there is room still for a cultural poetics of hill stations. VlNAY LAL University of California, Los Angeles Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings ofRamakrishna. By JEFFREY J. KRIPAL. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. xxii, 386 pp. $49.95 (cloth...

.... But many questions remain unanswered, particularly in regard to the marriage alliances contracted by members of the modern administration (who didn't have jagirs or offices at their disposal). I, of course, dissent from Dr. Leonard's observation that Munshi Kali Prasad's "early efforts had aimed at social...

... of the three structures considered here the cosmological structure of mythic-time (Kali-Sakti). The discussion focuses on the MahadevI, the Creatrix who is beyond all form, the Power beyond powers. The Tantric world vision which allows the union of Sakti and Sakta to be the Ultimately Real, not as thought...

....: Westview Press, 1994. xxvii, 196 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). This collection of 14 short stories, all written in English, was originally published in 1992 by Kali for Women (New Delhi) and represents an interesting departure from Kali for Women's two earlier story collections, Truth Tales (1986...

... provide a crucial link to explain the undeveloped treatment of the goddess in the PCE, which is regarded as a baseline text. Interestingly, such references find their way into Tamil folkloric accounts, which point to the presence of the goddess Kali (in the hollow of a tree). The fourth mother...

...: 600 B.C. to the Early 20th Century . Edited by Susie Tharu and K. Lalita . New York : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York , 1991 . xxxii, 537 pp. $29.95. Truth Tales: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of India . Edited by Kali for Women, Introduction by Meena...