Bengal Nights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bengal Nights write by Mircea Eliade. This book was released on 1995-04. Bengal Nights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A semi-autobiographical romance between a French engineer and the daughter of a Hindu family with which he stayed in India. A case of East meets West with all the joys and woes that such encounters bring. For her version of the story see her novel, It Does Not Die.
It Does Not Die
It Does Not Die - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook It Does Not Die write by Maitreyi Devi. This book was released on 1994-04-16. It Does Not Die available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An Indian writer gives her version of the romance which Mircea Eliade, the Romanian writer, described in his novel, Bengal Nights. "Why did you not tell the truth, Mircea?" she asks, not at all pleased that he portrayed her as an Oriental vamp.
It Does Not Die
It Does Not Die - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook It Does Not Die write by Maitraye Devi. This book was released on 1976. It Does Not Die available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
In the Forests of the Night
In the Forests of the Night - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Forests of the Night write by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. This book was released on 2009-08-11. In the Forests of the Night available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. I was born to the name of Rachel Weatere in the year 1684, more than three hundred years ago. The one who changed me named me Risika, and Risika I became, though I never asked what it meant. I continue to call myself Risika, even though I was transformed into what I am against my will. By day, Risika sleeps in a shaded room in Concord, Massachusetts. By night, she hunts the streets of New York City. She is used to being alone. But now someone is following Risika. Someone has left her a black rose, the same sort of rose that sealed her fate three hundred years ago. Three hundred years ago Risika had a family -- a brother and a sister who loved her. Three hundred years ago she was human. Now she is a vampire, a powerful one. And her past has come back to torment her. This atmospheric, haunting tale marks the stunning debut of a promising fourteen-year-old novelist.
Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal
Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal write by Rachel Fell McDermott. This book was released on 2011. Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries. Richly represented in straw, clay, paint, and decoration, they are similarly displayed in elaborately festooned temples, thronged by thousands of admirers. The first book to recount the history of these festivals and their revelry, rivalry, and nostalgic power, this volume marks an unprecedented achievement in the mapping of a major public event. Rachel Fell McDermott describes the festivals' origins and growth under British rule. She identifies their iconographic conventions and carnivalesque qualities and their relationship to the fierce, Tantric sides of ritual practice. McDermott confronts controversies over the tradition of blood sacrifice and the status-seekers who compete for symbolic capital. Expanding her narrative, she takes readers beyond Bengal's borders to trace the transformation of the goddesses and their festivals across the world. McDermott's work underscores the role of holidays in cultural memory, specifically the Bengali evocation of an ideal, culturally rich past. Under the thrall of the goddess, the social, political, economic, and religious identity of Bengalis takes shape.
