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↑ Up one levelProgrammes of the Minakshi-Sundareshwara Temple
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Reference code
GB 891 CF-CF/1-CF/1/1
Publication status
Draft
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 folder
Date(s)
- 1977-2009 (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 file contains printed festival and ritual programmes issued by the temple administration (devasthanam) of the Minashi-Sundareshwara Temple in the form of a poster or a booklet. These usually give the date, time and order of festival processions and events:
* Cittirai Peruvila (April-May 1977, 1978, 1982, 1984, 1992, 1995)
* Ani Uncal (June-July 1977)
* Ati Mulaikkottu (July-August 1976, 1977, 1980)
* Avani Mula (August-September 1976, 1977, 1980, 1991)
* Maha Rudrabhishekam (September 1976, 1977)
* Navaratri (September-October 1976)
* Navaratri booklets listing Navaratri recitals (1976, 1977)
* Tiruvempavai (December-January, 1976-77)
* Ennai Kappu (1977)
* Tai Teppa (January-February 1977, 1978, 1995, 1997)
* Mahakumbhabhishekam, also known as the Renovation ritual, July 1995, with a list of oblation items to be donated by devotees, and printouts of several reports on the 2009 ritual published in _The Hindu_
* Calendar of all festivals in 1977-78, with some content transliterated into English
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