Introduction: movements of Navaratri / Caleb Simmons, Moumita Sen -- The splendor of the sun: brightening the bridge between Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa and Devī Māhātmya in light of Navarātri ritual timing / Raj Balkaran -- Which Durgā? What Navarātra? Remarks on reconfigurations of royal rituals in the Kathmandu Valley / Astrid Zotter -- The king and the Yadu Line: performing lineage through Oasara in nineteenth-century Mysore / Caleb Simmons -- Dasara and the selective decline of sacrificial polity in a former princely state of Odisha / Uwe Skoda -- Politics, religion, and art in the Durgā Pujā of West Bengal / Moumita Sen -- Durgā Pujā committees: community origin and transformed mediatized practices employing social media / Xenia Zeiler -- Navaratri in Benares: narrative structures and social realities / Silje Lyngar Einarsen -- Dolls and demons: the materiality of Navaratri / Ina Marie Lunde Ilkama -- Ritual complementarity and difference : Navarātri and Vijayadaśamī in Kāñcipuram / Ute Hüsken -- Bengali Durgā Pujā: procedures and symbolism / Hillary Rodrigues -- The internal Navarātri: Sarkar Baba of Benares and the Goddess within / Jishnu Shankar -- Kolus, caste, and class: Navarātri as a site for ritual and social change in urban South India / Nicole A. Wilson -- Display shows, display tells: the aesthetics of memory during Pommai Kolu / Deeksha Sivakumar -- Royal Darbar and domestic kolus: social order, creation, procreation, and re-creation / Vasudha Narayanan -- Navarātra and Kanyā Pujā: the worship of girls as representatives of the Goddess in Northwest India / Brigitte Luchesi -- Conclusion / Hillary Rodrigues.