Little India Heritage Trail
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-0054
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-0054
- Author or attribution
- National Heritage Board, Singapore
- Record type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 2017
- Source / repository
- National Heritage Board, Singapore
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- Kali Library Research Catalogue; Temples, Sacred Places, and Historical Worship; Contemporary Worship and Living Traditions; Historical Accounts and Colonial Records
Description and curator notes
This complete heritage-trail booklet documents the people, streets, institutions, and religious sites of Singapore’s Little India. For Kali research, it supplies histories of Sri Veeramakaliamman Temple and Sri Vadapathira Kaliamman Temple within the wider development of a Tamil urban community. The surrounding sections explain neighborhood work, migration, commerce, and patronage, making the temple histories more useful than isolated tourist descriptions. The booklet includes photographs, maps, references, and acknowledgments, allowing readers to connect the narratives to a broader institutional research project. It is especially valuable for a diaspora section and for searching regional forms of Kali’s name in Tamil devotional contexts. The file is hosted in a directory labeled 2022, but its own publication statement says it was printed in January 2017; these should not be conflated. The whole booklet is the cataloged item. Its two Kali temple sections are indexed as passages within that item, rather than counted as separate books.
KALI-0054 — Kali Library Research Catalogue.
Access and reliability assessments below are supplied by the curator's 4–5 November 2026 research release, not a new independent verification.
Author / attribution: National Heritage Board, Singapore
Publication: National Heritage Board, Singapore · 2017
Printed January 2017; hosted file path dated 2022; complete illustrated booklet with final trail maps.
Format / language: Institutional heritage booklet · English
Kali relevance: Histories of Sri Veeramakaliamman and Sri Vadapathira Kaliamman temples in Singapore.
Context: Tamil diaspora and Singapore urban religious history.
Subjects: Temples, Sacred Places, and Historical Worship; Contemporary Worship and Living Traditions; Historical Accounts and Colonial Records
Evidence / reliability: Institutional or scholarly secondary source
Access / rights: Complete text checked 2026-11-05. Free to read; copyright retained. Link to the source; no blanket republication permission established.
Source and alternate access links:
Read complete text: https://www.roots.gov.sg/-/media/Roots/Files/little-india-heritage-trail/2022/20220127_LittleIndia_Trail-Booklet.pdf
Source access
Read or locate the original source at National Heritage Board, Singapore
Rights and reading conditions
Complete text checked 2026-11-05. Free to read; copyright retained. Link to the source; no blanket republication permission established. This library links to the source and does not reproduce its full text.
Citation
National Heritage Board, Singapore. Little India Heritage Trail. National Heritage Board, Singapore · 2017.
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