Goddess in the City
Durga pujas of contemporary Kolkata
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3639232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Manas Ranjan Ray (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, corresponding author), Manas Ray |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1126-1164 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x16000913 |
| OpenAlex | W2734734182 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 12 |
Durga puja, or the worship of goddess Durga, is the single most important festival in Bengal's rich and diverse religious calendar. It is not just that her temples are strewn all over this part of the world. In fact, goddess Kali, with whom she shares a complementary history, is easily more popular in this regard. But as a one-off festivity, Durga puja outstrips anything that happens in Bengali life in terms of pomp, glamour, and popularity. And with huge diasporic populations spread across the world, she is now also a squarely international phenomenon, with her puja being celebrated wherever there are even a score or so of Hindu Bengali families in one place. This is one Bengali festival that has people participating across religions and languages. In that sense, Durga puja has an unmistakable cosmopolitan hue about it. With more than 10 million people visiting the differentpandals(the temporary, covered pavilions or marquees created for the goddess) in Kolkata alone on any one of the four days of festivity (now effectively extended to a whole week), Durga puja could well be the biggest carnival on earth. Kolkata's image has become synonymous with this grand autumnal festival of the goddess
Ancient history · Art · Bengali · Geography · Hinduism · Literature · Political science · Popularity · Theology · Worship · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
Analysis on Impact of Media on Commercialization of Durga Puja
Pratimasilpa and the Making of the Public
Infrastructural Concealment
Fostering cultural vitality and enhancing sustainable urban tourism through international labelling
Promoting sustainable development in festivals through ritual revisions
Live-streaming the goddess in the times of Covid-19
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |