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The Metropolitan Museum of Art — n.d.
Museum record · English · Open access
A complete record for a printed pairing of Kali and Tara, identified as part of a Mahavidya print series. The institutional description supplies a concrete example of two goddesses being juxtaposed within a shared devotional and commercial format. This is helpful for research on relationships within the Mahavidyas while retaining the individual identities and iconographic features of the paired fi
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Original source or repository
Chulani Kodikara — 2024
Article · English · Open access
Examines a public Kali yadinna (devotional appeal or curse) undertaken by Sandya Ekneligoda in her campaign for justice concerning her disappeared husband, and its relationship to dissident public memory and gendered activism. Separate author, analytical frame and publication from the Waldorf-Premaratna paper on later protests.
Source: Memory Studies 17(3), 531-546; DOI 10.1177/17506980241241591
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Pongsit Pangsrivongse — Journal of Indian Philosophy 52 (2024), 21–40; DOI 10.1007/s10781-023-09555-3.
Article · English · Open access
Edits and translates the Kālīsūtra preserved in Nepalese ritual liturgies and relates the goddess to consciousness, cosmology and embodied nondualism. Discusses manuscript contexts and multiple recensions of the short text, making it unusually useful for the manuscript-oriented side of the library.
Source: Journal of Indian Philosophy (Springer Nature)
Original source or repository
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — n.d.
Article · English · Open access
The exhibition’s complete public introductory text describes Hindu devotional printing in modern Bengal and introduces its visual and religious setting. Images and captions include Kali and related goddess subjects, supporting comparison across printed forms of devotion. This record deliberately identifies the free exhibition essay as its extent. The separate illustrated book with the same title i
Source: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Anandvardhan — 2025
Article · English · Open access
Compares Nazrul’s Kali devotional songs with earlier and parallel Bengali poetic traditions.
Source: ijnrd.org
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Elaine Craddock — International Journal of Hindu Studies 28 (2024), 259–281; DOI 10.1007/s11407-024-09362-9.
Article · English · Open access
Ethnographic analysis of gender, community and public possession rituals among tirunaṅkais in Tamil Nadu. Includes regional goddess practices in which Kālī and Aṅkāḷammaṉ figure; helpful for analyzing living religious authority without assimilating distinct regional forms.
Source: International Journal of Hindu Studies (Springer Nature)
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Daniels, Sienna — n.d.
Article · English · Open access
Student-journal analysis of Western feminist Kali imagery and appropriation.
Source: Canvas Journal
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Rajendran, Abhilash — 2022
Article · English · Open access
Day and night food offerings at Tarapith on Kali Puja night.
Source: Hindu Blog
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HuffPost India — 2018
Article · English · Open access
Personal essay on Bengali Kali Pujo identity versus pan-Indian Diwali.
Source: HuffPost India
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Press Trust of India — 2019
Article · English · Open access
Wire report on Kali Puja 2019.
Source: Business Standard
Original source or repository
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts — 2014 CE
Video · Not specified · Metadata only
From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18.
Section: Institutional, Archival, and Web Sources.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repository
Orr, Leslie C. — 2000 CE
Book · Not specified · Metadata only
From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18.
Section: Scholarly Works.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repository
National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, U.S. National Park Service — 2021 CE
Reference · Not specified · Metadata only
From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18.
Section: Institutional, Archival, and Web Sources.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repository
Elmore, Wilber Theodore — 1915
Book · English · Open access
Study of South Indian village deities, including Kali forms.
Source: Internet Archive
Original source or repository
Dash, Sanchita — 2015
Article · English · Open access
Debate over a celebrity photoshoot as Kali.
Source: Deccan Chronicle
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Encyclopaedia Britannica — 1911
Reference · English · Open access
Entry on Durga and her identification with Kali.
Source: Wikisource (public domain)
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Unknown (Guler) — ca. 1780
Museum record · English · Open access
Guler Devi Mahatmya folio of Kali's battle against Chanda and Munda.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.390
Original source or repository
Unknown — 19th c.
Museum record · English · Open access
Gouache of Chamunda before the battle with Chanda and Munda.
Source: Wellcome Collection (Public Domain Mark)
Original source or repository
Pratapachandra Ghosha — 1871
Book · English / Sanskrit · Open access
A nineteenth-century account of Bengali goddess worship, including Kali and Chamunda in the Sandhi Puja, ritual invocations, iconography and notes on Kalighat. Useful for the historical relationship between Durga Puja and Kali worship; its comparative mythology reflects the period.
Source: Calcutta: Hindoo Patriot Press; scan hosted by Rare Book Society of India
Original source or repository
Unknown — n.d.
Manuscript · Sanskrit (Bengali script) · Open access
Bengali-script Saptashati from Sir John Woodroffe's own collection.
Source: Arthur Avalon Collection, Sri Aurobindo Library, via Internet Archive (CC0)
Original source or repository
Unknown — n.d.
Manuscript · Sanskrit · Open access
Palm-leaf Saptashati in Nagari script.
Source: Palm-leaf manuscripts, via Internet Archive (CC0)
Original source or repository
Unknown — n.d.
Manuscript · Sanskrit · Open access
18-folio Newari Saptashati.
Source: Newari paper manuscripts, via Internet Archive (CC0)
Original source or repository
Unknown — n.d.
Manuscript · Sanskrit · Open access
Newari Saptashati with its preliminary hymns.
Source: Prabhakar Bajracharya Manuscript Collection, via Internet Archive (CC0)
Original source or repository
Unknown — 19th c.
Museum record · English · Open access
Gouache of Durga riding Kali in battle.
Source: Wellcome Collection (Public Domain Mark)
Original source or repository
Bhuti, Kunjalal — 1901
Scripture · Bengali · Open access
Bengali edition of the Durga Saptashati (Chandi), including the Kali-Chamunda episodes.
Source: Digital Library of India, via Internet Archive
Original source or repository
Unknown (Guler) — ca. 1780
Museum record · English · Open access
Guler folio of Kali and the Matrikas in battle.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008.359.11
Original source or repository
Unknown — n.d.
Museum record · English · Open access
Painting of Kali drinking Raktabija's blood in the Devi Mahatmya battle.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74674
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Marcelo Moura Mello — 2022
Article · English · Open access
Explores how adherents of Kali/Mariamma worship relate to land, Dutch colonial spirits and territorial rights within Indo-Guyanese devotional settings.
Source: academia.edu
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Rushal Unkule; Gopal Joge; Veena Mushrif-Tripathy — 2017
Article · English · Open access
Dedicated study of a Chamunda stone image, its human anatomy, and early medieval iconography.
Source: Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology 5, 191–200
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Roygupta, Anwesha — 2025
Article · English · Open access
History of Shyama Sangeet from Ramprasad to Nazrul.
Source: Oaklores
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Bischoff, Andrea — 2023
Article · English · Open access
Compares Ramakrishna's Kali mysticism with Therese of Lisieux.
Source: Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies 36, Butler University Digital Commons
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Roopesh, O. B. — 2022 CE
Article · Not specified · Metadata only
From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18.
Section: Scholarly Works.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repository
Mu. Sivalingam — 2009
Book · Tamil · Open access
A complete authored survey of twenty-one Sri Lankan Shakti shrines, including dedicated chapters on Sangarathai Pittiyampathi Bhadrakali (printed pp. 33–35), Vannai Veeramakali (pp. 38–39) and Trincomalee Bhadrakali (pp. 69–74). These eleven pages of Kali-focused regional history and devotional traditions make its relevance substantive rather than incidental.
Source: Inuvil Saivathiruneri Kazhagam
Original source or repository
Sophie-Anne Perkins — 2022
Article · English · Open access
Interviews with twelve women in a Western Śākta practice community, examining deity embodiment, healing, religious experience and transformations in relation to Devī; contains Kali-related material.
Source: Religions 13(12), 1149
Original source or repository
Larios, Borayin — 2017 CE
Book · Not specified · Metadata only
From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18.
Section: Scholarly Works.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repository
McDermott, Rachel Fell, and Jeffrey J. Kripal — 2003 CE
Book · Not specified · Metadata only
From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18.
Section: Scholarly Works.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repository
Coburn, Thomas B. — 1991 CE
Book · Not specified · Metadata only
From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18.
Section: Primary Texts, Editions, and Translations.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repository
Barua, Ankur — n.d.
Article · English · Open access
Includes a section on Kali as the nation in post-1905 Bengali revolutionary thought (Jugantar, Aurobindo).
Source: Apollo, University of Cambridge repository
Original source or repository
Halkias, Georgios — 2007
Museum record · English · Open access
Research photograph of the Bhimakali temple gates.
Source: SAS-Space, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Zeiler, Xenia — 2019 CE
Article · Not specified · Metadata only
From Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography, Sources for Chapters 1–18.
Section: Scholarly Works.
Source: Keepers of the Mother’s Flame — Master Bibliography
Original source or repository
Thurston, Edgar; Rangachari, K. — 1909
Reference · English · Open access
Entry on the Eravallar, recording worship of Kali.
Source: Wikisource (public domain)
Original source or repository
Marcelo Moura Mello — 2021
Article · Portuguese · Open access
Peer-reviewed Portuguese article on spirit histories, colonialism and Kali temple ritual in Guyana.
Source: scielo.br
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Sulagna Bhattacharya — 2023–2024
Article · English · Open access
Includes Kālī-associated Tantric iconographic and textual discussion within a broader study of Buddhist and Hindu Tantricism. Contextual rather than exclusive Kālī scholarship.
Source: Heritage 11.1 (2023–2024)
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Outlook News Desk — 2022
Article · English · Open access
Explainer on the Kalika Mata temple's history and renovation.
Source: Outlook
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Indian Panorama — n.d.
Reference · English · Open access
Bhadrakali temple revered as mother of Kalarippayattu.
Source: Indian Panorama
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Anugraha Roy — 2024
Article · English · Open access
Describes origin stories, shrines and ritual customs of the Mannadi Bhagavati / Mudipura Devi temple in Kerala, where Bhadrakali is venerated.
Source: ijrar.org
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Nepal Tourism Board — n.d.
Reference · English · Open access
Official overview of Guhyeshwari, Dakshinkali, Dantakali and Baglung Kalika.
Source: Nepal Tourism Board
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Chatterjee, Pranto — n.d.
Article · English · Open access
Bangladeshi devotional essay on Kali's forms and meaning.
Source: Daily Sun (Bangladesh)
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