The lives of Sarada Devi: gender, renunciation, and Hindu politics in colonial India
Sarada Devi (1852-1920) was the Hindu child bride of the famous nineteenth-century renouncer Ramakrishna (1836 -1886). While Ramakrishna was alive, he worshiped Sarada as a goddess, a woman to be revered but never touched, and ultimately making of her a figure of popular adoration. This thesis add...
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3897 |