Hinduism and the Left: Searching for the Secular in Post-Communist Kolkata
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-nov04b-025
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-NOV04B-025
- Author or attribution
- James Samuel Bradbury
- Record type
- Dissertation
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 2019
- Source / repository
- pure.manchester.ac.uk
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- Further Full-Text Sources — November 2026; PhD thesis / Bengal; Contextual — Kali Puja and Kolkata religious politics; Contextual and Related-Form Sources
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University of Manchester doctoral thesis on religion and secular governance in Kolkata; its discussion of Kali Puja is a bounded part of a larger study of political and festive life.
Curator source KALI-NOV04B-025. Research supplement checked 4–5 November 2026.
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James Samuel Bradbury · 2019 · English · PhD thesis / Bengal
Scope: Contextual — Kali Puja and Kolkata religious politics
University of Manchester doctoral thesis on religion and secular governance in Kolkata; its discussion of Kali Puja is a bounded part of a larger study of political and festive life.
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Editorial note: Lower priority contextual source; do not present as a dissertation devoted to the goddess.
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James Samuel Bradbury. Hinduism and the Left: Searching for the Secular in Post-Communist Kolkata. 2019. PhD thesis / Bengal. Lower priority contextual source; do not present as a dissertation devoted to the goddess.
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