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Everything a story or a god page cites, classed by what kind of source it is and whether its wording may be quoted. Facts and plots are common property; sentences belong to their authors — so only public-domain and Creative-Commons sources are marked quotable.
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Scholarly 39
| Title | Author / year | Rights | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banaras: City of Light (en) | Diana L. Eck · 1982 | Copyrighted | Copyrighted; Shiva's Kashi. Cite arguments and facts with her name. |
| Bhagwan, the Supreme Deity of the Bhils (Anthropos 35–36) (en) | Wilhelm Koppers · 1941 | Unknown | Public domain in India from 2022 (Koppers d. 1961) but still copyrighted in the EU; treat as copyrighted. Cite for the Bhil creator-god; death date not verified from a primary source. |
| Colonial in the vernacular: the god Jagannath and his 'tribal' origins in the state of Odisha (en) | Politika | Copyrighted | Critique of the tribal-origin thesis as colonial in descent; cite as a scholarly position. |
| Colonial in the vernacular: the god Jagannath and his tribal origins in the state of Odisha — Politika | — | Copyrighted | |
| Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States (chart) (en) | Cornell University Library · 2026 | Creative Commons quotable | CC-licensed guide, updated yearly. The tool for deciding US public-domain status: before 1931 free, 1931–63 renewed works 95 years from publication. |
| Copyright and translated content (en) | IPWatchdog · 2021 | Copyrighted | Explains that a translation carries its own copyright over a public-domain original; the reason to check the translator, not just the text. |
| Cosmography in the oral tradition of the Santhals: an anthropological perspective (en) | eTribal Tribune | Copyrighted | Anthropological account of the Santal creation; cite the author. |
| Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India (en) | Diana L. Eck · 1981 | Copyrighted | Copyrighted (3rd ed. 1998); how images are seen. Cite, paraphrase. |
| Elephanta Sadashiva — University of Mumbai, Sanskrit Bhavan | — | Unknown | |
| Epics in the oral genre system of Tulunadu (en) | B. A. Viveka Rai, Oral Tradition journal · 1996 | Copyrighted | Scholarly account of paddanas; cite the author for arguments. |
| Exception to infringement of copyright: Section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957 (en) | Mondaq · 2022 | Copyrighted | Practitioner note on fair dealing; supports the rule that a short attributed quote inside a discussion is defensible, wholesale reuse is not. |
| Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit (en) | Wendy Doniger (O'Flaherty) · 1975 | Copyrighted | Copyrighted Penguin Classic. Use it to locate passages by verse number, then quote the public-domain translation or paraphrase; a short attributed quote only within a discussion of her translation. First-edition year taken from the listing. |
| Indian Folklife (National Folklore Support Centre, Chennai) (en) | National Folklore Support Centre · 2001 | Creative Commons quotable | Open-access folklore quarterly with author copyright; check each article's own notice before quoting. Back issues mirrored on Sahapedia. |
| Jagannath Cult and its Linkage with Tribal Culture — Odisha Review (Jun–Jul 2019) | — | Copyrighted | Government of Odisha magazine; named authors hold copyright. |
| Jagannath cult and its linkage with tribal culture (Odisha Review, June–July 2019) (en) | Government of Odisha, named author · 2019 | Copyrighted | Same series; cite author and issue. |
| Kali rises in the East (en) | British Museum blog | Copyrighted | Museum essay on Kali's Bengal image; do not reuse images. |
| Lord Jagannath: the tribal deity (Odisha Review, June–July 2007) (en) | Government of Odisha, named author · 2007 | Copyrighted | Government magazine article by a named author; cite author and issue, paraphrase. |
| Mamallapuram Trimurti Cave — Puratattva | — | Unknown | Heritage-documentation site summarising Vogel, Dubreuil, Gopinatha Rao, Lockwood and Nagaswamy. |
| Mamallapuram Trimurti Cave — Puratattva | — | Unknown | Heritage-documentation site summarising Vogel, Dubreuil, Gopinatha Rao, Lockwood and Nagaswamy on the left shrine. |
| Manifestation of the unmanifested: Shiva sculptures of the Kailash temple, Ellora — Sahapedia | — | Creative Commons quotable | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; the non-commercial clause may exclude an ad-supported site, so paraphrase and cite rather than reuse. |
| Memory and visual politics of Gond religion (Seminar 740) (en) | Mayuri Patankar, India Seminar · 2021 | Copyrighted | Scholarly essay on the Kangali retelling and Kachargarh; cite the author. |
| National experiences with the protection of expressions of folklore (en) | WIPO | Copyrighted | Background on why folklore has no individual author under copyright; cite, paraphrase. |
| Paumacariya: a critical study (en) unverified | Wisdom Library (hosted thesis) | Copyrighted | wisdomlib.org returned 403 in parts of the research pass; verify the page before citing it in print. |
| Protection of folklore (guest post) (en) | SpicyIP · 2010 | Copyrighted | Blog analysis of folklore and Indian copyright; cite the argument. |
| R. G. Anand v. M/s Delux Films & Ors. (AIR 1978 SC 1613) (en) | Supreme Court of India · 1978 | Public domain quotable | Judgment text (public). Holds that ideas, themes, plots and legendary facts are common property; the basis for retelling any traditional story freely while never copying an author's expression. |
| Reamker (en) | Asia Society (education) · 2025 | Copyrighted | Educational summary of the Khmer epic; paraphrase. |
| Rural livelihood of eighteenth-century Bengal in perspectives of Shivayana by Rameswara Bhattacharya (en) | Academia.edu paper (author as listed) | Copyrighted | Scholarly reading of the peasant Shiva; cite the argument, paraphrase. |
| Shibayan (Famine and Dearth project) (en) | University of Exeter | Copyrighted | Project page with excerpt and context; the excerpt's translation is the project's. |
| Shiva Revealed in the Linga (Lingodbhavamurti), Chola bronze — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, object 38137 unverified | — | Copyrighted | Object page returned HTTP 429; title taken from a search listing. |
| Speaking of Siva — book excerpt page (en) | IIT Kanpur (Amit Mukerjee) hosting Ramanujan's introduction | Copyrighted | Convenient excerpt of Ramanujan's framing ('protest movement'); short attributed quote at most. |
| The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India (en) | C. J. Fuller · 2004 | Copyrighted | 1992, rev. 2004. Copyrighted anthropology of village deities and possession; the reference for how local gods relate to Puranic ones. Cite, paraphrase. |
| The Copyright Act, 1957 (India), ss. 13, 22, 52 (en) | Government of India · 1957 | Public domain quotable | Statute text, no copyright bar. Section 22 gives life plus sixty years; section 52 the narrow fair-dealing window; section 13 originality of expression. |
| The Cult of Jagannath and the Regional Tradition of Orissa (en) | A. Eschmann, H. Kulke, G. C. Tripathi (eds), Manohar · 1978 | Copyrighted | Copyrighted; the archive.org upload is not rights-cleared, so link the publisher or a review. Cite 'Eschmann argued' for the tribal-origin thesis and the Narasimha and Nabakalebara layers. |
| The Cult of Vithoba (en) | G. A. Deleury, Deccan College, Poona · 1960 | Copyrighted | Treat as copyrighted (death date unconfirmed). Source for 'Vitthala' as the oldest attested name and the Shiva/Vishnu layering; cited here via Wikipedia's summary. |
| The Presence of Siva (en) | Stella Kramrisch · 1981 | Copyrighted | Copyrighted Princeton study of Shiva from Veda to Purana and of Elephanta; cite her readings by name, never lift her prose. |
| The Rama story as embellished by Kamban (en) | Delhi Comparatists · 2021 | Copyrighted | Use for the Kamban–Valmiki contrasts; cite as a reading, paraphrase. |
| The Vernacular Veda: Revelation, Recitation, and Ritual (en) | Vasudha Narayanan · 1994 | Copyrighted | Copyrighted scholarship on how Tamil Srivaishnavas treat the Tiruvaymoli as scripture; cite for facts and arguments, paraphrase. |
| The Village Gods of South India (en) | Henry Whitehead · 1921 | Public domain quotable | 1916, 2nd ed. 1921; public domain in India and the US. Foundational description of Aiyanar and village rites; quote with a colonial-era caveat. US renewal status of reprints unchecked. |
| Wilhelm Koppers (Bérose biography) (fr) | Bérose encyclopaedia | Copyrighted | Biography and bibliography for Koppers; use to cite his Bhil work correctly. |