Durga Puja: With Notes and Illustrations
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-fifty2-009
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-50B2-009
- Author or attribution
- Pratapachandra Ghosha
- Record type
- Book
- Language
- English / Sanskrit
- Date / edition
- 1871
- Source / repository
- Calcutta: Hindoo Patriot Press; scan hosted by Rare Book Society of India
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- 50 Full-Text Sources — Batch 2, November 2026; Scholarship and historical studies
Description and curator notes
A nineteenth-century account of Bengali goddess worship, including Kali and Chamunda in the Sandhi Puja, ritual invocations, iconography and notes on Kalighat. Useful for the historical relationship between Durga Puja and Kali worship; its comparative mythology reflects the period.
Curator source KALI-50B2-009. Scholarship and historical studies. Export dated 5 November 2026.
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09 Durga Puja: With Notes and Illustrations
Pratapachandra Ghosha • 1871
Historical ritual study • English with Sanskrit
Calcutta: Hindoo Patriot Press; scan hosted by Rare Book Society of India
A nineteenth-century account of Bengali goddess worship, including Kali and Chamunda in the Sandhi Puja, ritual invocations, iconography and notes on Kalighat. Useful for the historical relationship between Durga Puja and Kali worship; its comparative mythology reflects the period.
Access check: Complete 188-page scan downloaded. Title page, main ritual account, Kali/Chamunda passages, concluding numbered notes and back matter inspected. The book contains its own notes and illustrations, not merely a catalogue description.
Full text: https://rarebooksocietyofindia.org/book_archive/durga-pooja.pdf
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https://rarebooksocietyofindia.org/book_archive/durga-pooja.pdf: https://rarebooksocietyofindia.org/book_archive/durga-pooja.pdf
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Curator-reported free reading access, not a blanket republication licence. Follow the linked host's copyright and reuse conditions. No full source text is reproduced. Complete 188-page scan downloaded. Title page, main ritual account, Kali/Chamunda passages, concluding numbered notes and back matter inspected. The book contains its own notes and illustrations, not merely a catalogue description.
Citation
Pratapachandra Ghosha. Durga Puja: With Notes and Illustrations. Calcutta: Hindoo Patriot Press; scan hosted by Rare Book Society of India. 1871. Historical ritual study. https://rarebooksocietyofindia.org/book_archive/durga-pooja.pdf
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