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Servants of the Goddess: The Priests of a South Indian Temple. By Fuller C. J.. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1984. Pp. 232. £22.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

R. B. Inden
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University of Chicago

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1 Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta, Early History of the Deccan, ed. Yazdani, G. (London, 1960), 241–2, 424–5, represents this view, as something of an apology for the temple, quite well.Google Scholar

2 See Havell, E. B., The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation (London, 1915), 119.Google Scholar Similar is the position of Kramrisch, Stella, The Hindu Temple (Calcutta, 1946), 179.Google Scholar For a discussion, consult Mitter, Partha, Much Maligned Monsters (Oxford, 1977), 270–7.Google Scholar

3 Not atypical are the intimations of Eliot, Charles, Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch (New York, 1954; 1st edn, 1922), II, 174–5.Google Scholar

4 See Thrasher, A. W., ‘The Dates of Mandana Miśra and Śamkara,’ Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, XXIII, 117–39.Google Scholar

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