The New Spirit in India

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Catalogue identifier: kali-import-3af832f6ebfa384b48e3
Alternate titles and import identifiers: KALI-15-NOV05-011
Author or attribution: Henry W. Nevinson
Record type: Book
Language: English
Date / edition: 1908
Source / repository: Project Gutenberg
Access: Open access
Subjects: 15 Full-Text Sources — November 2026; Kali; Historical Accounts and Colonial Records; Historical Testimony; Travel and Memoir

Description and curator notes

Original twentieth-century observer’s visit to Kalighat, with discussion of Kali worship, pilgrimage, and how colonial outsiders interpreted the goddess and blood sacrifice. Interpret as period testimony, not neutral scholarship.

Historical testimony: this travel, memoir or missionary work contains period outsider representations of Kali worship and may contain colonial, racial or religious prejudice. It is not modern peer-reviewed scholarship or a neutral authority on Hindu beliefs.

Curator source KALI-15-NOV05-011. Metadata, completeness, licence and access claims below are supplied by the 5 November 2026 document, not a new independent verification by this library. Full documents are linked, not reproduced.

11. The New Spirit in India
Henry W. Nevinson | 1908 | English | Historical eyewitness / travel source

FULL DOCUMENT Complete historical book (chapter on Kalighat) • Complete public-domain Project Gutenberg HTML

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Henry W. Nevinson. The New Spirit in India. Project Gutenberg. 1908. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/70847/70847-h/70847-h.htm

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