This is not a separate work: it is UNESCO's own inscription record for Durga Puja in Kolkata, one entry in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the same continuously maintained official register this atlas also records as a general source. It descends from that register rather than standing beside it, so citing this entry alongside the general Representative List record, or alongside another of its entries, is one institutional voice, not corroboration. Its real limit is the register's own limit: an official designation record produced by the Intergovernmental Committee for the purpose of recognition and safeguarding, not a religiously neutral scholarly ethnography. Use it for this practice's inscription status, inscription year and the Committee's own stated description of it; a claim about its deeper history or meaning needs a source produced outside UNESCO.
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This is not a separate work: it is UNESCO's own inscription record for Durga Puja in Kolkata, one entry in an authoritative international institutional register, treated at the top tier as that primary record. NotesInscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2021, on India's nomination, the first Asian festival on the list. Verified against ich.unesco.org 2026-08-06. This record merges what was briefly a second atlas entry for the same UNESCO inscription, catalogued separately in the widened Intangible Cultural Heritage import; that entry is retired into this one.
Citation
AuthorUNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Publication Year2021
URLhttps://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/durga-puja-in-kolkata-00703
Source Typereference
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Durga, Deities This source names Durga directly: "is UNESCO's own inscription record for Durga Puja in Kolkata, one entry in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the same continuously maintained official register..."
This source names Kolkata directly: "inscription record for Durga Puja in Kolkata, one entry in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the same continuously maintained official register this atlas also..."
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This record's own Title names the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity as the register it is entered under, and its Author names the Committee or UNESCO itself rather than an individual scholar; one entry inside that same continuously maintained official register, not a witness independent of it.
Claims Backed By This Source (22 claims)
This source backs 22 claims across the atlas. As facts: 13 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds, 1 connected. Plus 6 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 connected.
- Sacred Objects & Ritual Items, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Cities, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Deities, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Holidays & Festivals, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Denominations, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Regions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
Well-attested
13Sacred Objects & Ritual Items
General References
6Sacred Objects & Ritual Items
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