Authoritative Female Speech and the Indic Goddess Traditions: An Overview
This chapter presents an overview of the history of authoritative female speech in Indian goddess cultures through centuries. It seeks to highlight that this alternative tradition of authoritative female speech forms a continuum, even though there are man
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The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions
Anway Mukhopadhyay
The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions Devi and Womansplaining
Anway Mukhopadhyay Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank a lot of people for the way they enthused me throughout my work on this book. I thank my parents and sister, my colleagues and students and the various Shakta scholars, friends and acquaintances who, in diverse ways, contributed to this project indirectly. I especially thank the various monks and devotees of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission who have provided me with various kinds of necessary information on Shaktism in Bengal and have also facilitated my understanding of the persistence of the matribhava, the maternal feeling, of Ma Sarada through the male monks of the Math and Mission. In this context, special mention must be made of Swami Pararupanandaji, Matrimandir, Jayrambati, West Bengal, and Swami Alokanandaji, Ramakrishna Advaita Ashrama, Varanasi. In the same vein, I also thank the Matajis of the Sri Sarada Math and Ramakrishna Sarada Mission, Dakshineswar, Kolkata, and the Sri Sarada Math, Varanasi. I heartily thank the ashramites of the Ma Anandamayee Kanyapeeth, Varanasi, including Jayadi, Geetadi and Guneetadi, for the help they have exte
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