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Hardbound. Zustand: New. Contents: Preface. 1. Tribal absorption and Jati mobility. 2. Orissa: the land of the tribals and the Hindus. 3. Trditional account: a source of history. 4. The Nila Madhava-Jagannatha: tradition at a glance. 5. The tribal priests of a Hindu shrine. 6. Upward mobility of the non-Brahmana priests and the traditional account. 7. Conclusion. Appendices. Bibliography.

Lord Jagannatha of Puri one of most famous Hindu deities was the Rashtradevata of Orissa in the medieval period and became a symbol of Oriya identity in modern times The erstwhile imperial Gajapati kings of Orissa and their successors the Khurda Rajas enjoyed special privileges in the cult as Adya sevaka or first servant of Jagannatha and even controlled it to a certain extent The present work consists of a comprehensive palm leaf manuscript combining several originally separate Oriya texts of the fifteenth sixteenth to eighteenth centuries compiled by the Deula Karanas the temple scribes of Puri in the late eighteenth or the early nineteenth century They provide firsthand and most authoritative information on land endowments to religious shrines throughout the medieval Orissan period on rituals and duties of priests and temple servitors and most important on legendary and various historical and cultural events during the reign of the Gajapatis The present compendium is a unique source for the study of the cult of Jagannatha and the culture and history of pre colonial Orissa Coming to light for the first time it may be regarded as the most important study of its genre after the publication of Puris temple chronicle the Madala Panji by AB Monanty in 1940 230 pp.