Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal: The Fortunes of Hindu Festivals by Rachel Fell McDermott

Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal: The Fortunes of Hindu Festivals

Rachel Fell McDermott

372 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

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Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all mar...

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