Spaces of recognition: Puja and power in contemporary Calcutta

Journal of Southern African Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 289-299

  Ghosh, Anjan ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES   (India)

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FESTIVAL; RELIGION;

INDIA;

EID: 0034031347     PISSN: 03057070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03057070050010129     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. The word puja may refer to both big annual public celebrations like the Durga festival and to more private and family-contained acts of worship and devotion.
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5. Ibid., p. 210.
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12. Ibid., p. 86.
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15. A. Appadurai, Modernity at Large (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997).
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17. Ibid.
18. Appadurai and Breckenridge, 'Public Modernity in India', p. 4.
19. Ibid., p. 5.
20. The limits of the discourse of reform have now been brilliantly interrogated in Lata Mani, Contentious Traditions (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999).
21. See the discussion on the Bengal Renaissance in P. Chatterjee, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World (London, Zed Books, 1986).
22. For an account of some of these fragments, see P. Chatterjee, The Nation and its Fragments (Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1994).
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26. S. Bhattacharji, Mother Goddesses of India (Calcutta, K.P. Bagchi, 1995), pp. 32-33.
27. Ibid.
28. D. Eck, Darsana (Chalmersbcrg, Anima Books, 1981), p. 6.
29. Fuller, The Camphor Flame, p. 60.
30. M. Das, 'Changing Pattern of the Durga Puja Festival in Bengal from the Establishment of British Rule in Bengal in 1757 till Independence, 1947', Unpublished PhD thesis, Calcutta University, 1993, p. 12.
31. J. Chaliha and B. Gupta, 'Durga Puja in Calcutta', in S. Chaudhuri (ed), Calcutta: The Living City, vol. 2 (Calcutta, Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 331.
32. In the sense of the sixteen annas making up a rupee. See M. Togawa, 'Ritual Towards Totality: Solo-ana-puja, the Ritual Organisation of Durga Puja in Rural Bengal', in Steering Committee of the Research Project Institutions, Networks and Forces of Change in Contemporary South Asia (eds), Rituals as Popular Culture: Towards a Historico-Anthropological Understanding of Modern Indian Society (Tokyo, Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, 1999), p. 60.
33. B. Ghose, 'Gentooder Durga Puja'(Babu's Durga puja), in B. Ghose, Kolkata Shaharer Itibritta (History of the City of Calcutta) (Calcutta, Bak Sahitya, 1975), pp. 320-321.
34. A. Sur, 'Baroari Pujar Sekal Ekal' (Then and Now of Community Durga Puja), Saptahik Bartaman, (30 September 1995), pp. 8-10.
35. Ibid., p. 9.
36. Ibid.
37. M. Dutta, Kolikatar Puratan Kahini O Pratha (Old Stories and Customs of Calcutta) (Calcutta, 1929; republished 1975), pp. 109-111.
38. P. Mitra, Hutum PancharNaksha (Sketches of Hutum) (Calcutta, Basumati Prakashani, 1862; republished 1982); R.P. Gupta, 'Hutomer Chokhe Baroari Puja' (Community Durga Puja as Observed by Hutum), Saptahik Bartaman, (30 September 1995), pp. 11-1 4; B. Chose, 'Gentooder Durga Puja'.
39. P. Mitra, Hutum PancharNaksha (Sketches of Hutum) (Calcutta, Basumati Prakashani, 1862; republished 1982); R.P. Gupta, 'Hutomer Chokhe Baroari Puja' (Community Durga Puja as Observed by Hutum), Saptahik Bartaman, (30 September 1995), pp. 11-1 4; B. Chose, 'Gentooder Durga Puja'.
40. P. Mitra, Hutum PancharNaksha (Sketches of Hutum) (Calcutta, Basumati Prakashani, 1862; republished 1982); R.P. Gupta, 'Hutomer Chokhe Baroari Puja' (Community Durga Puja as Observed by Hutum), Saptahik Bartaman, (30 September 1995), pp. 11-1 4; B. Chose, 'Gentooder Durga Puja'.
41. J. Sarma, 'Puja Association in West Bengal', Journal of Asian Studies, 28, 3 (1969), p. 583.
42. B. Banerjee, 'Sarbojonin Durgotsab in Calcutta: A Preliminary Report of the Pujas in 1969', Folklore, 14, 9 (September 1973), pp. 347-353.
43. Banerjee, 'Sarbojonin Durgotsab'; P. Acharya, 'Durga Puja Ekhon Sponsor Nirvar' (Durga Puja Now Sponsor Dependent), Saptahik Bartaman, (30 September 1995), pp. 15-18.
44. Banerjee, 'Sarbojonin Durgotsab'; P. Acharya, 'Durga Puja Ekhon Sponsor Nirvar' (Durga Puja Now Sponsor Dependent), Saptahik Bartaman, (30 September 1995), pp. 15-18.
45. P. Bose, 'Pujor Kolkatar Bikalpalok' (The Wonderland of Calcutta During Durga Puja), Baromas, special Durga puja issue, October 1997.