Anandamayi Ma, the Bengali saint whom devotees received as the Goddess herself in human form, dies at Dehradun; her ashrams and her sayings keep a Shakta sainthood of joy and spontaneity at the center of modern Hindu devotion.
The Event
- Date
- 1982 (exact)
- Era
- Modern; Standard periodization of Hindu history
- Location
- Dehradun; today Uttarakhand, India
- Traditions
- Hinduism
- Streams
- Shaktism
- Key figures
- Anandamayi Ma
Primary Sources
- Matri Vani, the recorded sayings of Anandamayi Ma
Secondary Sources
- Fuller, The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India (Princeton, 2004)
- Flood, An Introduction to Hinduism (Cambridge, 1996)
Provenance: HIST-0338; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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