How Kali Puja Came to Guyana (oral narrative)
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-nov05-c018
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-NOV05-C018
- Author or attribution
- Jamsie Naidoo (narrator); Stephanos Stephanides (collector/editor)
- Record type
- Reference
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 1998
- Source / repository
- Links & Letters 5, pp.249-250, within the complete Margins section
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- Additional Full-Text Sources — 5 November 2026; Guyana; Direct Kali Mai oral history; Diaspora
Description and curator notes
Complete, short recorded oral account in Guyanese Creole with English translation. The speaker recounts a remembered story about migrant prayer, illness, the Mother, and the establishment of Kali Puja; this is oral history, not independently corroborated colonial chronology.
Curator source KALI-NOV05-C018. Research release: 5 November 2026.
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Jamsie Naidoo (narrator); Stephanos Stephanides (collector/editor) | 1998 | Guyana | English
Publication: Links & Letters 5, pp.249-250, within the complete Margins section
Complete, short recorded oral account in Guyanese Creole with English translation. The speaker recounts a remembered story about migrant prayer, illness, the Mother, and the establishment of Kali Puja; this is oral history, not independently corroborated colonial chronology.
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Access checked: Entire oral narrative plus translation and note present at pp.249-250 of an open seven-page journal-section PDF.
Relationship: Direct Kali Mai oral history
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https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/lal/11337397n5/11337397n5p245.pdf
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Jamsie Naidoo (narrator); Stephanos Stephanides (collector/editor). How Kali Puja Came to Guyana (oral narrative). Links & Letters 5, pp.249-250, within the complete Margins section. 1998.
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