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ISBN: 9780231129190 - Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal
Rachel Fell McDermott

ISBN10: 023112919X  ISBN13: 9780231129190
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Apr 2011
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... More

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ISBN: 9780195134346 - Singing to the Goddess Singing to the Goddess
Rachel Fell McDermott

ISBN10: 0195134346  ISBN13: 9780195134346
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Feb 2001
This collection presents 145 brief Bengali lyric poems dedicated to the Hindu goddesses Kali and Uma. These poems - many of which are presented here for the first time in English translation - were written from the early eighteenth century up to... More

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ISBN: 9780231129183 - Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal
Rachel Fell McDermott

ISBN10: 0231129181  ISBN13: 9780231129183
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 15 Apr 2011
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... More

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ISBN: 9780520232402 - Encountering Kali Encountering Kali
Rachel Fell McDermott, Jeffrey J Kripal

ISBN10: 0520232402  ISBN13: 9780520232402
Publisher: University of California Press
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 May 2003
"Encountering Kal "explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen--the Hindu goddess Kal. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all-loving... More

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ISBN: 9780195134339 - Singing to the Goddess Singing to the Goddess
Rachel Fell McDermott

ISBN10: 0195134338  ISBN13: 9780195134339
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Feb 2001
This collection presents 145 brief Bengali lyric poems dedicated to the Hindu goddesses Kali and Uma. These poems - many of which are presented here for the first time in English translation - were written from the early eighteenth century up to... More

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ISBN: 9780195134353 - Mother of My Heart, Daughter of My Dreams Mother of My Heart, Daughter of My Dreams
Rachel Fell McDermott

ISBN10: 0195134354  ISBN13: 9780195134353
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2001
This book chronicles the rise and subsequent fortunes of goddess worship, or Saktism, in the region of Bengal from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. The primary documents are lyrics directed to the goddesses Kali and Uma... More

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ISBN: 9788120820418 - Encountering Kali Encountering Kali
Rachel Fell McDermott, Jeffrey J Kripal

ISBN10: 812082041X  ISBN13: 9788120820418
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass,
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 May 2004
"Encountering Kali" explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen, the powerful Goddess Kali. More

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ISBN: 9780520232396 - Encountering Kali Encountering Kali
Rachel Fell McDermott, Jeffrey J Kripal

ISBN10: 0520232399  ISBN13: 9780520232396
Publisher: University of California Press
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 05 May 2003
"Encountering Kal "explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen--the Hindu goddess Kal. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all-loving... More

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ISBN: 9788120820098 - Encountering Kali Encountering Kali
Rachel Fell McDermott, Jeffrey J Kripal

ISBN10: 8120820096  ISBN13: 9788120820098
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass,
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 30 Apr 2004
append; biblio; index; notes More

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ISBN: 9788173047602 - Breaking Boundaries with the Goddess Breaking Boundaries with the Goddess
Kaushik Roy Cynthia Ann Humes, Rachel Fell McDermott

ISBN10: 817304760X  ISBN13: 9788173047602
Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 30 Jun 2008
The Sepoy army of the Indian colonial army was the pillar of Britain's Indian empire. Nevertheless it became marginal in Indian histriography. More