The making of a modern temple and a Hindu city : Kalighaṭ and Kolkata.

Moodie, Deonnie.

The making of a modern temple and a Hindu city : Kalighaṭ and Kolkata. /DeonnieMoodie. - , New York, NY : Oxford University Press , 2019. - xv, 217 pages : 24cm.

"Middle-class Hindus have worked to modernize Kālīghāṭ - the most famous Hindu temple in Kolkata - over the past long century. Rather than being rejected with the onslaught of European modernity, the temple became a facet through which Hindus could produce and publicize their modernity, as well as their cities' and their nation's"

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Middle class Religious life
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