Positioning Kali in Thuggee Tradition
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- Rasheda Parveen and Akshaya K. Rath
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- Article
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 2018-05-07
- Source / repository
- AesthetixMS, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
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- Open access
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- Kali Ma Additional Sources; Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Historical Accounts and Colonial Records
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Parveen and Rath examine how colonial accounts connected Kali worship with thuggee. Reading administrative records alongside travel writing and fiction, particularly Meadows Taylor, they argue that British classification helped consolidate a religious explanation of banditry. Their discussion also applies psychoanalytic ideas about motherhood and family to these representations. This is useful for investigating the Western image of Kali and for tracing citations to colonial documents. Its historical and psychological arguments should be evaluated rather than treated as established descriptions of Hindu worship. The authors themselves acknowledge the scarcity of independent indigenous evidence. The article is secondary interpretation, not direct testimony about all Kali devotees.
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Positioning Kali in Thuggee Tradition
English title: Positioning Kali in Thuggee Tradition
Author / attribution: Rasheda Parveen and Akshaya K. Rath
Publication: 2018-05-07
Publisher / repository: AesthetixMS, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
Edition details: Volume 10, issue 2 (2018), pages 158–170; ISSN 0975-2935
Language: English
Type: Scholarly journal article
Subjects: Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Historical Accounts and Colonial Records
Parveen and Rath examine how colonial accounts connected Kali worship with thuggee. Reading administrative records alongside travel writing and fiction, particularly Meadows Taylor, they argue that British classification helped consolidate a religious explanation of banditry. Their discussion also applies psychoanalytic ideas about motherhood and family to these representations. This is useful for investigating the Western image of Kali and for tracing citations to colonial documents. Its historical and psychological arguments should be evaluated rather than treated as established descriptions of Hindu worship. The authors themselves acknowledge the scarcity of independent indigenous evidence. The article is secondary interpretation, not direct testimony about all Kali devotees.
Kali relevance: Substantial analysis of Kali’s role in colonial representations of thuggee and mother-worship.
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Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0, explicitly stated on first page. Free to read; link to official full text. Commercial republication is not authorized by this license.
Evidence class: Scholarly secondary interpretation; distinguish its historiographical and psychoanalytic arguments from primary testimony.
Reading limits: Beginning, representative middle sections, conclusion and final bibliography inspected; cited archival sources not independently checked. Not a full scholarly peer review.
Composition date: 2017–2018; received December 9, 2017
Witness date: Not applicable: modern published scholarship
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Read complete source text: https://rupkatha.com/V10/n2/v10n216.pdf
Source / repository record: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v10n2.16
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Rasheda Parveen and Akshaya K. Rath. Positioning Kali in Thuggee Tradition. AesthetixMS, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. 2018-05-07.
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