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vii CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgments • ix Note on Transliteration • xv Introduction • 1 Part One. Imaginative Worlds of Gangamma 1. An Aesthetics of Excess • 27 2. Guising,Transformation, Recognition, and Possibility • 54 3. Narratives of Excess and Access • 75 4. Female-Narrated Possibilities of Relationship • 97 5. Gangamma as Ganga River Goddess • 113 Part Two.Those Who Bear the Goddess 6. Wandering Goddess, Village Daughter: Avilala Reddys • 139 7. Temple and Vesham Mirasi: The Kaikalas of Tirupati • 157 8. The Goddess Served and Lost:Tatayyagunta Mudaliars • 180 9.Exchanging Talis with the Goddess:Protection and Freedom to Move • 210 10. “Crazy for the Goddess”: A Consuming Relationship • 242 Conclusion: Possibilities of a World Become Female • 265 Glossary • 273 Notes • 281 References • 297 Index • 305 This page intentionally left blank ...

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