The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City: Kalighat and Kolkata Deonnie Moodie

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• ISBN 10:2018015454
• ISBN 13:9780190885281
• Author:Deonnie Moodie

Kalighat is said to be the oldest and most potent Hindu pilgrimage site in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). It is home to the dark goddess Kali in her ferocious form and attracts thousands of worshipers a day, many sacrificing goats at her feet. In The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City, Deonnie Moodie examines the ways middle-class authors, judges, and activists have worked to modernize Kalighat over the past long century. Rather than being rejected or becoming obsolete with the arrival of British colonialism and its accompanying iconoclastic Protestant ideals, the temple became a medium through which middle-class Hindus could produce and publicize their modernity, as well as the modernity of their city and nation.
Table contents:

1. Reviving and Reforming Calcutta’s Hindu Past
2. A Religious Institution Goes Public
3. Sacred Space Becomes Public Space
4. Resisting Middle-Class Modernizing Projects
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