List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Movements of Navar?tri Caleb Simmons and Moumita Sen Navar?tri in the Court 1. The Splendor of the Sun: Brightening the Bridge between M?rka??eya Pur??a and Dev? M?h?tmya in Light of Navar?tra Ritual Timing Raj Balkaran 2. Which Durg?? What avar?tra? Remarks on Reconfigurations of Royal Rituals in the Kathmandu Valley Astrid Zotter 3. The King and the Yadu Line: Performing Lineage through Dasara in Nineteenth-Century Mysore Caleb Simmons 4. Dasara and the Selective Decline of Sacrificial Polity in a Former Princely State of Odisha Uwe Skoda Navar?tri on Display 5. Politics, Religion, and Art in the Durg? P?j? of West Bengal Moumita Sen 6. Durg? P?j? Committees: Community Origin and Transformed Mediatized Practices Employing Social Media Xenia Zeiler 7. Navar?tri in Benares: Narrative Structures and Social Realities Silje Lyngar Einarsen 8.

Dolls and Demons: The Materiality of Navar?tri Ina Marie Lunde Ilkama 9. Ritual Complementarity and Difference: Navar?tri and Vijayada?am? in K?ñcipuram Ute Hüsken Navar?tri Inside 10. Bengali Durg? P?j?: Procedures and Symbolism Hillary Rodrigues 11. The Internal Navar?tri: Sarkar baba of Benares and the Goddess Within Jishnu Shankar Navar?tri at Home 12. Kolus , Caste and Class: Navar?tri as a Site for Ritual and Social Change in Urban South India Nicole A. Wilson 13. Display Shows, Display Tells: The Aesthetics of Memory during Pommai Kolu Deeksha Sivakumar 14. Royal Darb?r and Domestic Kolu s: Social order, Creation, Procreation, and Re-creation Vasudha Narayanan 15.

Navar?tra and Kany? P?j?: The Worship of Girls as Representatives of the Goddess in Northwest India Brigitte Luchesi Conclusion Hillary Rodrigues Contributors Index.