| Fig. 0.1. | Artisans working on images for the upcoming Durgā Pūjā season. |
| Fig. 1.1. | Inside the ṭhākurdālān at the Shovabazar Rāj house. |
| Fig. 1.2. | Bathing the kalā bau. |
| Fig. 1.3. | Releasing the nīlkaṇṭha pākhī. |
| Fig. 2.1. | William Prinsep, “Entertainment during the Durga Puja,” 1840. |
| Fig. 2.2. | “For the Poojahs.” |
| Fig. 2.3. | “Poojah Holidays.” |
| Fig. 3.1. | Feeding the Goddess in the shape of a little girl at kumārī pūjā. |
| Fig. 3.2. | Sindūr-khelā at a house in Howrah city. |
| Fig. 3.3. | Āgamanī. |
| Fig. 4.1. | The traditional ekcāla image. |
| Fig. 4.2. | Durgā holds Kṛṣṇa in her lap. |
| Fig. 4.3. | Gopeśvar Pāl. |
| Fig. 4.4. | A Gopeśvar Pāl tableau from 1939. |
| Fig. 4.5. | Jagaddhātrī. |
| Fig. 5.1. | A Durgā Pūjā pandal shaped like Ajanta Caves. |
| Fig. 5.2. | A Durgā Pūjā pandal in the shape of a Tata Motors factory. |
| Fig. 5.3. | A Durgā Pūjā pandal in the shape of the Titanic. |
| Fig. 5.4. | Plane crashing into the World Trade Center. |
| Fig. 5.5. | Mahiṣa in the shape of Osama bin Laden. |
| Fig. 5.6. | A Goan church being dismantled at the conclusion of Jagaddhātrī Pūjā. |
| Fig. 6.1. | Two types of Kālī. |
| Fig. 6.2. | The Kālī of Kālīghāṭ Temple. |
| Fig. 6.3. | Siddheśvarīkālī at the Citpur Temple. |
| Fig. 6.4. | N. C. Pāl’s new Kālī of the 1930s. |
| Fig. 6.5. | A modern Kālī, with Śiva nearly sitting up. |
| Fig. 7.1. | Goat heads placed before the image of Kālī at a house Pūjā in Belpukur. 188 |
| Fig. 7.2. | Kālī seated on Śiva. |
| Fig. 7.3. | A Jurassic Park dinosaur entertaining onlookers at Kālī Pūjā. |
| Fig. 7.4. | The Kālī too horrible to worship. |
| Fig. 8.1. | The Kālī at Kaliganj. |
| Fig. 8.2. | Children protesting against animal sacrifice, Kālīghāṭ Temple. |
| Fig. 9.1. | The Durgā image at the Garden State Cultural Association. |
| Fig. 9.2. | The ritual of baraṇ. |
| Fig. 10.1. | Processing Śītalā in her palanquin from her temple to the bathing ghāṭ. |
| Fig. 10.2. | Women performing the arduous rite of daṇḍī-kāṭā. |