Life and Travel in India

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Catalogue identifier: kali-import-3d89f5d0b76c50bc825e
Alternate titles and import identifiers: KALI-15-NOV05-012
Author or attribution: Anna Harriette Leonowens
Record type: Book
Language: English
Date / edition: 1884 (1897 edition)
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

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Chapter XIV includes substantial first-person observations of Calcutta, the Kali temple, and its ritual environment. The author’s language and interpretations reflect nineteenth-century colonial conventions.

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.

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12. Life and Travel in India
Anna Harriette Leonowens | 1884 (1897 edition) | English | Historical travel source

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Anna Harriette Leonowens. Life and Travel in India. Project Gutenberg. 1884 (1897 edition). https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52896/52896-h/52896-h.htm

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