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Eighteen accounts of what is real, each set out in its own terms and each with its own page.
All World Views Does God Exist?The Shaktism stream of the Hinduism timeline.
Streams: All of Hinduism Shaivism Shaktism Vaishnavism Smarta Tradition Hindu Reform Movements Arya Samaj ISKCON
The cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro anchor one of the world's earliest urban civilizations in the Indus valley; its undeciphered script leaves its religion a matter of seals, figurines, and inference, and later Hindu tradition claims continuities that scholarship cannot confirm or rule out.
The Devi Mahatmya, set inside the Markandeya Purana, proclaims the Goddess as the supreme power who takes form as Durga and Kali to destroy the demons no male god can kill; it remains the central scripture of Shakta worship and of Navratri.
The Koch king Naranarayan rebuilds the Kamakhya temple at Guwahati on its ancient site, one of the chief seats of the Goddess and of Tantric worship; the temple crowns Nilachal Hill above the Brahmaputra and draws the Ambubachi festival to this day.
The temple priest Ramakrishna of Dakshineswar worships Kali with total devotion, then practices Islam and Christianity and declares every path reaches the same goal; his disciple circle and his recorded conversations make him the saint of India's religious pluralism.
Vivekananda founds the Ramakrishna Mission in Calcutta, joining the monastery at Belur with schools, hospitals, and relief work; the Mission gives the reform age its enduring institution, devotion expressed as service to the poor as God.
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.
UNESCO inscribes Durga Puja in Kolkata on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, honoring the festival in which the Goddess returns home and a whole city becomes her temple for five days.
