Abstract

As the most popular religious festival, Durga puja has become iconic of modern Bengali Hindu identity in West Bengal, India. Its transformation from a rural family ritual to an urban secular one over the last 200 years highlights the constraints on the emergence of a public sphere in post-colonial India.

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