The Web of Indian Life
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-0087
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-0087; nivedita_web_1904
- Author or attribution
- Sister Nivedita (Margaret E. Noble)
- Record type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 1904; later impression digitized
- Source / repository
- Longmans, Green and Co.
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- Kali Library Research Catalogue; Historical Accounts and Colonial Records
Description and curator notes
Nivedita's account of Indian social and religious life connects domestic relationships, philosophical ideas, pilgrimage and national consciousness. The chapter on Shiva or Mahadev gives the strongest link to a Kali collection, interpreting the relation between the great god and the Mother, religious imagery and the encounter with the terrible within divine life. Other chapters explore the Eastern mother, marriage and women's place in society. The final chapter applies the weaving metaphor to India's historical future. The book therefore belongs primarily on a context and reception shelf beside Nivedita's more directly focused Kali the Mother. Its sympathetic argument is also an argument with the assumptions of contemporary Western readers, and its generalizations should be assessed as a participant's historical interpretation. The digitized edition preserves sixteen chapters and front matter, including a Tagore introduction and the publication history of later impressions.
KALI-0087 — 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: Sister Nivedita (Margaret E. Noble)
Publication: Longmans, Green and Co. · 1904; later impression digitized
First edition May1904; digitized front matter lists a new edition July1906 and impressions through July1918.
Format / language: Historical book / primary devotional or interpretive source · English
Composition / textual history: Original English work; see publication date and edition notes
Identifier: nivedita_web_1904
Kali relevance: Contextual treatment of Mother theology and Kali–Shiva symbolism within a broad account of Indian life.
Context: Read in its historical and literary context; translation choices are those of the named translator.
Subjects: Historical Accounts and Colonial Records
Evidence / reliability: Freely accessible complete historical text; interpretive and historical claims should be compared with modern scholarship.
Access / rights: Complete text checked 2026-11-04. Historical text and translation are public domain in the United States; observe host transcription terms and local law for reuse.
Source and alternate access links:
Read complete text: https://sacred-texts.com/book/the-web-of-indian-life
Alternate / related form: https://sacred-texts.com/hin/wil/index.htm
Source access
Read or locate the original source at Longmans, Green and Co.
Rights and reading conditions
Complete text checked 2026-11-04. Historical text and translation are public domain in the United States; observe host transcription terms and local law for reuse. This library links to the source and does not reproduce its full text.
Citation
Sister Nivedita (Margaret E. Noble). The Web of Indian Life. Longmans, Green and Co. · 1904; later impression digitized.
This page supplies catalogue metadata and links. It does not reproduce the underlying source text. Historical, religious, healing and interpretive claims belong to the cited sources, not to an independent verification by this catalogue.