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The Wandering Goddess of Bengal: Kali's Journey from 'Demonic' to Divine
Long before she became the iconic black goddess of Kolkata, Kali was a tribal deity on the fringes of Bengali society — feared, worshipped with animal sacrifice, and associated with bandits and the wild landscape of the Sundarbans. This episode traces her transformation across centuries: how medieval Tantric texts adopted her, how the Mughal court encountered her cult, and how the 18th-century poet Ramprasad Sen reimagined her as a loving mother — a shift that changed the religious landscape of Bengal forever. We also explore the temple economy, the role of the Brahminical establishment in…
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