Bhakti Beyond the Temple: Locating Kaḷameḻuttu in Pre-Modern Kerala
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-0172
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-0172
- Author or attribution
- Shibi K.
- Record type
- Article
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 2020; Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology 8(1), pp. 514–543
- Source / repository
- Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- Kali Library Research Batch 3; Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Kerala; Bhadrakali; Art and Iconography
Description and curator notes
The article examines Kerala kaḷameḻuttu floor-drawing and non-Brahmanical devotional practice, using palm-leaf records, colonial descriptions, social history and ritual literature. Bhadrakāḷī appears among the relevant goddess forms and image-making traditions. The full PDF includes the scholarly article, references and page sequence. This is a contextual source about a wider Kerala practice—not a Kali-only monograph—and should be tagged accordingly.
KALI-0172 — Kali Library Research Batch 3.
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Shibi K. | 2020; Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology 8(1), pp. 514–543 | English
Full document: https://heritageuniversityofkerala.com/JournalPDF/Volume8.1/28.pdf
Extent checked: Complete 30-page journal article PDF
The article examines Kerala kaḷameḻuttu floor-drawing and non-Brahmanical devotional practice, using palm-leaf records, colonial descriptions, social history and ritual literature. Bhadrakāḷī appears among the relevant goddess forms and image-making traditions. The full PDF includes the scholarly article, references and page sequence. This is a contextual source about a wider Kerala practice—not a Kali-only monograph—and should be tagged accordingly.
Kali relevance. Bhadrakālī iconography, Kerala sacred geography and living art forms.
Editorial / rights: Contextual Kali relevance only; do not present the entire essay as a study solely of Kali. Complete author/journal PDF freely readable; rights for copying not determined.
Source access
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Rights and reading conditions
Contextual Kali relevance only; do not present the entire essay as a study solely of Kali. Complete author/journal PDF freely readable; rights for copying not determined. This library links to the source; no full text is reproduced.
Citation
Shibi K.. Bhakti Beyond the Temple: Locating Kaḷameḻuttu in Pre-Modern Kerala. Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology. 2020; Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology 8(1), pp. 514–543.
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