Modern Hinduism: Being an Account of the Religion and Life of the Hindus in Northern India
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-fifty-045
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-50-045
- Author or attribution
- W. J. Wilkins
- Record type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 1887
- Source / repository
- digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- 50 Full-Text Sources — November 2026; Historical and literary sources; Historical Accounts and Colonial Records
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Chapter VII treats the Shaktas, with detailed descriptions of Kali worship, Kali Puja and Kalighat. Useful as a nineteenth-century witness to Bengal religious practice; its Christian missionary assumptions should be kept in view.
Curator source KALI-50-045. Historical and literary sources. Export dated 5 November 2026.
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45 Modern Hinduism: Being an Account of the Religion and Life of the Hindus in Northern India
W. J. Wilkins • 1887
Historical ethnographic book • English
New York: Scribner and Welford
Chapter VII treats the Shaktas, with detailed descriptions of Kali worship, Kali Puja and Kalighat. Useful as a nineteenth-century witness to Bengal religious practice; its Christian missionary assumptions should be kept in view.
Access: Complete 503-page institutional scan downloaded freely; chapter, contents and end matter inspected. Distinct from the author’s Hindu Mythology, already catalogued.
Full text: https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/206244/files/b22239827_B000825019.pdf
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Citation
W. J. Wilkins. Modern Hinduism: Being an Account of the Religion and Life of the Hindus in Northern India. digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu. 1887. Historical ethnographic book • English
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