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Festival programmes and lists

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Reference code

GB 891 CF-CF/1

Publication status

Draft

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Series

Extent and medium

1 folder

Date(s)

  • 1976-2009 (Creation)

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Name of creator

Christopher J. Fuller
(1949-)

Biographical history

Christopher J. Fuller is an emeritus professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of the British Academy. In 1976, Fuller started conducting field research in the temple of Madurai in Tamilnadu, southeast India, which is dedicated to the Hindu goddess Minakshi. Fuller has also researched and written extensively on popular Hinduism and Hindu nationalism, the caste system, the anthropology of the state and other topics.

Repository

Royal Asiatic Society Archives

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Scope and content

This series contains printed programmes issued by the administration of Minakshi-Sundareshwara Temple, other temples and other Hindu organsiations for their festivals, rituals and events, as well as several lists compiled or collected by Christopher Fuller regarding the same.

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