Studies from an Eastern Home
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-0088
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-0088; nivedita_studies_1913
- Author or attribution
- Sister Nivedita; prefatory memoir by S. K. Ratcliffe
- Record type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 1913
- Source / repository
- Longmans, Green and Co.
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- Kali Library Research Catalogue; Historical Accounts and Colonial Records
Description and curator notes
This collection of Nivedita's essays places religious observance within the households, neighborhoods, pilgrimages and seasonal life of India. The essay “The Sacred Year” describes the progression of Bengali festivals and includes Kali Puja, the lamps associated with it and the emotions surrounding the Mother's arrival and departure. Other essays concern Durga Puja, Gopaler Ma, pilgrimage and domestic religious life. Its value for a Kali library is consequently contextual: it records a participant observer's interpretation of the lived environment in which Mother worship took place. The collection's final meditation, “The Ship of Flowers,” develops the imagery of religious offering and prayer. This complete volume helps readers compare Nivedita's more specifically theological Kali the Mother with her accounts of festivals and ordinary devotion. It is an early twentieth-century literary and religious witness, whose generalizations about Indian life should be identified as the author's interpretations.
KALI-0088 — 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; prefatory memoir by S. K. Ratcliffe
Publication: Longmans, Green and Co. · 1913
London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913.
Format / language: Historical book / primary devotional or interpretive source · English
Composition / textual history: Original English work; see publication date and edition notes
Identifier: nivedita_studies_1913
Kali relevance: Kali Puja and Bengali divine-Mother festival context, especially “The Sacred Year.”
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:
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Alternate / related form: https://sacred-texts.com/hin/seh/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; prefatory memoir by S. K. Ratcliffe. Studies from an Eastern Home. Longmans, Green and Co. · 1913.
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