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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
Published
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File
Extent and medium
1 folder
Date(s)
- 1977-2009 (Creation)
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Name of creator
Christopher John Fuller
(1949-)
Biographical history
Christopher John 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 great temple of Madurai in Tamilnadu, southeast India, which is dedicated to the Hindu goddess Minakshi and her husband Sundareshwara (Shiva). Fuller has also researched and written extensively on popular Hinduism and Hindu nationalism, the caste system, the Tamil Brahmans, the history of Indian anthropology, and other topics.
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Royal Asiatic Society Archives
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Scope and content
This file contains printed festival and ritual programmes in Tamil, issued by the temple administration (devasthanam) of the Minashi-Sundareshwara Temple in the form of posters or booklets. These usually give the dates, times and order of festival processions and events. The festivals are:
* 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
* Calendar of all festivals in 1977-78, with some content transliterated into English
With the programmes are printouts of several news reports on the 2009 and 2026 Mahakumbhabhishekam ritual published in _The Hindu_, collected by Fuller.
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