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Reference code
GB 891 CF-CF/2-CF/2/2
Publication status
Published
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File
Extent and medium
7 pieces
Date(s)
- 1980-1998 (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.
Repository
Royal Asiatic Society Archives
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Scope and content
This file contains register sheets recording service of the priests at the Minakshi-Sundareshwara Temple, covering the years of 1980, 1988, 1991, 1994 and 1998.
These printed registers, issued by the temple administration, list the names of priests, with columns for recording their private worship earnings. The columns have been left blank but Fuller has made notes next to the name of each priest to indicate if they have retired or died, and to give genealogical information (see CF/2/1). Stored together is further typed notes on the registers in English supplied by Fuller.
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