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dc.contributor.authorLama, Sudash-
dc.contributor.authorMahanta, Sanchita-
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-08T08:25:34Z-
dc.date.available2024-02-08T08:25:34Z-
dc.date.issued2022-03-
dc.identifier.issn2229-4880-
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/5106-
dc.description.abstractTradition of Devadāsī is a century-old phenomenon. The theme of pleasing the Supreme Being is nothing but a continuous process of devotion and belief in divinity. One association with divine power can be seen in the case of devadasis. These women were considered as the wives of the Gods, but in later periods they were also associated with the Goddesses too. As devadasis was seen as the utmost replica of chaste women because of their connexion with the celestial beings. The temple was the epicentre of the early medieval and medieval society. The temples were mainly donated by the royal families, rich merchants, and merchant guilds to legitimize the feudal polity to form an equation between the deity and the ruler in the world of authority in the agrarian fields as well as in materialistic matters. They were never recognized as widows or deprived of their marital status, as they were married to a god who was immortal. The theme of social constructs changed with in the bygone times; it translated from gender to sex, biological identification to define human beings. The system has gone through erosion in its position because of the existing power struggle of men in the social, political, economic, and cultural yards. In the shadow of patriarchy, devadasis occupied the role of a man, yet remained as like another woman in the social conjuncture. The practice of donating girls in the temples gave birth to a quasi-matrilineal community under the patriarchal equilibrium.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of North Bengalen_US
dc.subjectMatrilinealen_US
dc.subjectEmbeddeden_US
dc.subjectTraditionen_US
dc.subjectHonouren_US
dc.subjectStigmaen_US
dc.titleDevadasis: A historical analysisen_US
dc.title.alternativeKaratoya, A Refereed and Peer Reviewed Journal, Department of History, Vol.15, March 2022, pp 56-70en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
Appears in Collections:Karatoya Vol.15 (March 2022)

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