The Hindoos as They Are: A Description of the Manners, Customs and Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-fifty-048
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-50-048
- Author or attribution
- Shib Chunder Bose
- Record type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 1881
- Source / repository
- gutenberg.org
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- 50 Full-Text Sources — November 2026; Historical and literary sources; Historical Accounts and Colonial Records
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Chapter IX, The Kali Poojah Festival, offers an extended account of the festival, its observances and its place in Bengali domestic and public life. The title-page author is Shib Chunder Bose; the host’s automated author heading is inconsistent.
Curator source KALI-50-048. Historical and literary sources. Export dated 5 November 2026.
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48 The Hindoos as They Are: A Description of the Manners, Customs and Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal
Shib Chunder Bose • 1881
Historical social and religious account • English
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker and Co.
Chapter IX, The Kali Poojah Festival, offers an extended account of the festival, its observances and its place in Bengali domestic and public life. The title-page author is Shib Chunder Bose; the host’s automated author heading is inconsistent.
Access: Complete illustrated HTML, including the title page and whole Kali Puja chapter, printed pages 136–150; end marker present.
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Shib Chunder Bose. The Hindoos as They Are: A Description of the Manners, Customs and Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal. gutenberg.org. 1881. Historical social and religious account • English
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