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Datta, Gorav

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“…110 Phullara in fact said that women took pains to put on their nicer clothes during this annual celebration. 111 This feature may have become more pronounced during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.…”

Section: Mughal Rule the Public Performance Of Religion And Bengal'smentioning

confidence: 99%

“…113 According to Bimala Chandra Datta, most extant durgamandapas, chandimandapas and thakurdalans (as well as rasmanchas), in western Bengal at least, were built during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 114 The royal residence of the rajas of Nadia is supposed to have had one of the most ornately decorated chandimanadapas in Bengal. It was built either in the late seventeenth century or during the eighteenth century.…”

Section: Mughal Rule the Public Performance Of Religion And Bengal'smentioning

confidence: 99%

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Goddess encounters: Mughals, Monsters and the Goddess in Bengal

Chatterjee¹

2013

Mod. Asian Stud.

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This paper makes a case for exploring the cultural facets of Mughal rule as well as for a stronger engagement with sources in vernacular languages for the writing of Mughal history. Bengal's regional tradition of goddess worship is used to explore the cultural dimensions of Mughal rule in that region as well as the idioms in which Bengali regional perceptions of Mughal rule were articulated. Mangalkavya narratives—a quintessentially Bengali literary genre—are studied to highlight shifting perceptions of the Mughals from the late sixteenth century to the eighteenth century. During the period of the Mughal conquest of Bengal, the imperial military machine was represented as a monster whom the goddess Chandi, symbolizing Bengal's regional culture, had to vanquish. By the eighteenth century, when their rule had become much more regularized, the Mughals were depicted as recognizing aspects of Bengal's regional culture by capitulating in the end to the goddess and becoming her devotees. This paper also studies the relationship of the Mughal regime with Bengal's popular cultural celebration—the annual Durga puja—and explores its implications for the public performance of religion and for community formation during the early modern period.

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Section: Mughal Rule the Public Performance Of Religion And Bengal'smentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mughal Rule the Public Performance Of Religion And Bengal'smentioning

confidence: 99%