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KamalakantaTimeline (1769? - 1821?)
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Kamalakanta Chakravarti, usually known simply as Kamalakanta, is thought to have been born around the year 1773 in the Bengali district of Burdwan, in India. His father was a Brahmin priest who died when Kamalakanta was still a boy. His mother struggled financially to provide for the family with the meager income from the small amount of land left to them, but she managed to send Kamalakanta to higher education. |
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Kali: The Black Goddess of Dakshineswar, by Elizabeth U. Harding |
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Singing to the Goddess: Poems to Kali and Uma from Bengal, Translated by Rachel Fell McDermott |
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