Kali Temple at Kalighat and the City of Calcutta
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-0168
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-0168
- Author or attribution
- Surajit Sinha
- Record type
- Article
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 1972; original fieldwork 1967; in Cultural Profile of Calcutta
- Source / repository
- Cultural Profile of Calcutta; National Virtual Library of India
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- Kali Library Research Batch 3; Kalighat; Historical Accounts and Colonial Records; Temple Ethnography
Description and curator notes
A valuable historical field study of Kalighat as a sacred center in an expanding modern city. Sinha describes the families serving the temple, the landscape of pilgrims and religious workers, temple finance, changing local occupations and debates about the sacred quarter. The complete 1972 edited volume is readable in the National Virtual Library of India scan, with this chapter beginning on printed page 61; the entire book is the linked PDF, not an abstract.
KALI-0168 — Kali Library Research Batch 3.
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Surajit Sinha | 1972; original fieldwork 1967; in Cultural Profile of Calcutta | English
Full document: https://ocrdigitalfile.nvli.in/dlirepository/1406/Cultural-Profile-Of-Calcutta-ocr.pdf
Extent checked: Complete chapter within full scanned edited book
A valuable historical field study of Kalighat as a sacred center in an expanding modern city. Sinha describes the families serving the temple, the landscape of pilgrims and religious workers, temple finance, changing local occupations and debates about the sacred quarter. The complete 1972 edited volume is readable in the National Virtual Library of India scan, with this chapter beginning on printed page 61; the entire book is the linked PDF, not an abstract.
Kali relevance. Direct Kalighat temple ethnography and historical testimony.
Editorial / rights: Copyright is explicitly claimed in the book. Link only; do not rehost scans or extensive excerpts. Free to read through national digitization; publication contains an explicit no-reproduction notice.
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Copyright is explicitly claimed in the book. Link only; do not rehost scans or extensive excerpts. Free to read through national digitization; publication contains an explicit no-reproduction notice. This library links to the source; no full text is reproduced.
Citation
Surajit Sinha. Kali Temple at Kalighat and the City of Calcutta. Cultural Profile of Calcutta; National Virtual Library of India. 1972; original fieldwork 1967; in Cultural Profile of Calcutta. Chapter in Cultural Profile of Calcutta, beginning on printed p. 61; linked PDF contains the entire edited volume.
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