The Healing Power of Sitala
by
Dr Fabrizio M. Ferrari
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This volume examines notions of health and illness in North Indian devotional culture, with particular attention paid to the worship of the goddess Sitala, the Cold Lady. Consistently portrayed in colonial and postcolonial literature as the ambiguous 'smallpox goddess', Sitala is here discussed as...