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Kalighat (Bengali: কালীঘাট) is a locality of Kolkata, India. One of the oldest neighborhoods in South Kolkata, Kalighat is also densely populated and vibrant -- with a rich history of cultural intermingling with the various foreign incursions into the area over time. Bengali or Bangla (IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, PÄli and Sanskrit languages. ...
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Kalighat Kalika
A famous temple dedicated to the goddess PWOP! is situated in Kalighat. This is one of the 51 Shakti Peethas. The right toe of Dakshayani is said to have fallen here. The Shakti here is known as Kalika, while the Bhairava is Nakulesh. It is a very famous place and a pilgrimage for Shakta (Shiva and Durga/Kali/Shakti worshippers) followers within the Hindu religion. The Shakti Peethas (places of strength) are places of worship consecrated to the goddess Shakti, the female principal of Hinduism and the main deity of the Shakta sect. ...
This 14th century statue depicts Shiva (on the left) and Uma (on the right}. It is housed in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. In Hinduism, Gowri or Dakshayani is the Goddess of marital felicity and longevity, who is worshipped particularly by ladies to seek the long life of...
Lakshmi is a common aspect of Shakti Shakti meaning force, power or energy is the Hindu concept or personification of Gods female aspect, sometimes referred to as The Divine Mother. Shakti represents the active, dynamic principles of feminine power. ...
Bhairava (भैरव) is a name of the fearsome aspect of the god Shiva. ...
Shiva and Shakti as One Shaktism is a denomination of Hinduism that worships Shakti, or Devi Mata -- the Hindu name for the Great Divine Mother -- in all of her forms whilst not rejecting the importance of masculine and neuter divinity (which are however deemed to be inactive in the absence...
Kalika Temple One Raja Basanta Roy, uncle of Pratapaditya and the King of Jessore, Bangladesh built what is now known as Old Temple. This temple was situated on the banks of river Adi Ganga. The natmandir, a hall attached to the sanctum sanctorum is in the southern side while Shiva's temple is situated in the north-east. There is also a temple dedicated to Radha Krishna built in 1843 by a zamindar of Baowali. The speciality of Kali of this temple is the long protuded tongue made of gold. This is a different appearance from the other visualisations of Kali. Jessore is a district in south western region of Bangladesh. ...
The sanctum sanctorum is the area inside a Hindu temple complex where the main deity is installed. ...
Krishna playing his bansuri Artwork © courtesy of The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Krishna (कृषà¥à¤£ in Devanagari, in IAST ), according to various Hindu traditions, is the eighth avatar of Vishnu. ...
Zamindar, also known as Zemindar, Zamindari, or the Zamindari System (Persian: زمیندار) were employed by the Mughals to collect taxes from peasants. ...
Kalighat temple has references in 15th century texts. The original temple was a small hut. The present temple was built by Sabarna Roy Choudhury of Barisha in 1809. They offered 595 bighas of land to the Temple deity so that worship and service could be continued smoothly. The name Calcutta was derived from Kalighata. In the early days traders halted at Kalighat to pay patronage to the goddess. The temple was initially on the banks of Hooghly. The river over a period of time has moved away from the temple. The temple is now on the banks of a small canal called Adi Ganga, connecting to Hooghly. The present dakshina Kali idol of touchstone was created by two saints - Brahmananda Giri and Atmaram Giri. It was Padmabati Devi, the mother of Laksmikanta Roy Choudhury who discovered the fossils of Sati's finger in a lake called Kalikunda. This made Kalighat as one of the 51 Shakti Pithas. The Sabarna Roy Choudhury Family is the original owner of the temple, though at present a committee constituted by the Hon'ble Supreme Court looks after the affairs of the temple. Sabarna Roy Choudhury was the zamindar (landlord) of the Kolkata (earlier known as Calcutta) area, prior to the arrival of the British. ...
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The Hoogli River (alternatively spelled Hooghly) is a distributary of the Ganges River in India. ...
A fossil Ammonite Fossils are the mineralized remains of animals or plants or other traces such as footprints. ...
Kalika's Image The image of the deity is incomplete. Only the face of the deity was made first. The hands, made of gold and silver, the tongue, the Shiva statue and all the jewellery were added over the years. On snanyatra day, while giving Mother the ceremonial bath, the priests tie their eyes with cloth coverings. On auspicious occasions like Kali Puja, Durga Puja, Poila Boishakh, the Bengali New Year day and sankranti large number of devotees throng the place with offerings. Durga Puja (Bengali: দà§à¦°à§à¦—াপূজা Durga Puja) is the biggest festival of Bengali Hindus. ...
Pôhela Boishakh (Bengali: পহেলা বৈশাখ) or Pôila Boishakh is the first day of the Bangla Calendar. ...
Sankranthi, or Sankranti, is a festival that signifies the beginning of the harvest season for the farmers of India. ...
Kalighat painting Kalighat painting, or pata (pronounced 'pot') is a style of Indian painting derives its name from the place. It is characterised by generously curving figures of both men and women and an earthy satirical style. It developed during the nineteenth century in response to the sudden prosperity brought to Calcutta by the East India Company trade, whereby many houses including that of 'Prince' Dwarkanath Tagore, grandfather of Rabindranath Tagore became incredibly wealthy. Many of these nouveau riche families came from not particular exalted caste backgrounds, so the orthodox tended to frown on them and their often very tasteless conspicuous consumption. To the common people the 'babu's, as they were called, were equally objects of fun and sources of income. Thus the 'babu culture' portrayed in the Kalighat patas often shows inversions of the social order (wives beating husbands or leading them about in the guise of pet goats or dogs, maidservants wearing shoes, sahibs in undignified postures, doemstic contretemps, and the like.) They also showed European innovations (babus wearing European clothes, smoking pipes, reading at desks etc). The object of this is only partly satirical; it also expresses the wonder that ordinary Bengalis felt on exposure to these new and curious ways and objects. Kalighat painting originated in the 19th century Bengal, in the vicinity of Kalighat temple of Kolkata, India, and from being items of souvenir taken by the visitors to the Kali temple, the paintings over a period of time developed as a distinct school of Indian painting. ...
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Grave of Dwarkanath Tagore in London. ...
(Bengali: , IPA: ) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ...
Nouveau riche (French for new rich), or new money refers to persons who acquire wealth within their generation. ...
Caste systems are traditional, hereditary systems of social restriction and social stratification, enforced by law or common practice, based on endogamy, occupation, economic status, race, ethnicity, etc. ...
The term babu when used in modern-day South Asia is used as a sign of respect towards men, equivalent to the English Mr. ...
Kalighat pata pictures are highly stylised, do not use perspective, are usually pen and ink line drawings filled in with flat bright colours and normally use paper as a substrate, though some may be found with cloth backing or on cloth. The artists were rarely educated, and usually came from a lineage of artisans. Kalighat patas are still made today although genuine work is hard to come by. The art form is urban and largely secular: although gods and goddesses are often depicted, they appear in much the same deromanticised way as the humans do. By contrast, the Orissa tradition of pata-painting, centring around Puri, is consciously devotional. Kalighat pata has been credited with influencing the Bengal School of art associated with Jamini Ray.
Kalighat in fiction Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome is partly set in Kalighat and gives a wonderfully atmospheric depiction of the region as well as the city itself. Amitav Ghosh (born 1956 in Calcutta), is an Indian author, known for his work in the English language. ...
Book cover The Calcutta Chromosome is a 1995 English Language novel by Indian author Amitav Ghosh. ...
Kalighat also plays a prominent role in Song of Kali by Dan Simmons and in the short story Calcutta, Lord of Nerves by Poppy Z. Brite. Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel Hyperion and its sequel The Fall of Hyperion. ...
Photo of Poppy Z. Brite by J.K. Potter. ...
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