The Dance of Ādi Śakti: The Goddess in the Songs of Bharati and Nazrul

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Catalogue identifier: klm000090
Alternate titles and import identifiers: KLM000090
Author or attribution: Achintya Prahlad
Record type: Article
Language: English
Date / edition: 2021
Source / repository: Yale Journal of Music & Religion; Yale EliScholar
Access: Open access
Subjects: KLM Research Sources — Second Set, 5 November 2026; Regional traditions; Devotional poetry; Music; Reception

Description and curator notes

A comparative musicological and literary study of the goddess in the songs of C. Subramania Bharati and Kazi Nazrul Islam. It follows Kāḷī, Durgā and Umā across Tamil and Bengali devotional, political and musical settings, examining imagery of mother and daughter, national freedom, social equality and the musical treatment of divine power. Its sustained analysis of songs, rāgas and performance offers a regional reception history beyond generic descriptions of goddess iconography.

Curator research source KLM000090, second set dated 5 November 2026. Verification, chronology, completeness, access and licence statements below are supplied by the curator, not a new independent audit by this library. Full texts are linked, not reproduced. Abstract languages do not change the full work's language label.

The Dance of Ādi Śakti: The Goddess in the Songs of Bharati and Nazrul

Author and date: Achintya Prahlad • 2021

Publication: Yale Journal of Music & Religion; Yale EliScholar. Yale Journal of Music & Religion 7 (2), article 3, pp. 49–81. Journal issue and recommended citation say 2021; author profile lists online release as 2022.

Language: English; Tamil and Bengali song texts/translations

Kali relevance: Extensive direct analysis of Kali songs and imagery in Bengali and Tamil literature/music, with comparison to Durga and Uma. Not Kali-exclusive but directly pertinent.

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Publication or repository record

Subjects: Regional traditions; Devotional poetry; Music; Reception

Dates: 2021 modern scholarly publication; composition dates of cited traditional texts are separate and not established here; The complete modern edition or author-deposited copy identified in the publication details; not an ancient manuscript witness.

Rights: Yale publisher record explicitly states Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Public author-profile-associated copy on Academia. Attribution required; no need to infer reuse rights solely from the mirror.

Verification and limits: Complete author-deposited transcription, including final note 211, inspected. Musical notation was not fully visually verified. The journal PDF was unavailable; the linked author copy is the verified reading route.

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Publication or repository record: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yjmr/vol7/iss2/3/

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Citation

Achintya Prahlad. The Dance of Ādi Śakti: The Goddess in the Songs of Bharati and Nazrul. Yale Journal of Music & Religion; Yale EliScholar. Yale Journal of Music & Religion 7 (2), article 3, pp. 49–81. Journal issue and recommended citation say 2021; author profile lists online release as 2022. 2021. https://www.academia.edu/81834374/The_Dance_of_%C4%80di_%C5%9Aakti_The_Goddess_in_the_Songs_of_Bharati_and_Nazrul

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