Shadow Puppets, Songs, and Sacred Feasts

Daniel Michon, associate professor of religious studies at Claremont McKenna College, is the author of Archaeology and Religion in Early Northwest India: History, Theory, Practice and the editor and translator with D .A. Smith of To Serve God in Holy Freedom: The Brief Rebellion of the Nuns of the Royal Convent of Santa Mónica, Goa, India, 1731–1734. D. A. Smith has translated several Goan and Indo-Portuguese literary and historical works, including Orlando da Costa’s novel O Signo da Ira, the collected poetry of Laxmanrao Sardessai, Leonor Figueiredo’s biography of Sita Valles, and To Serve God in Holy Freedom: The Brief Rebellion of the Nuns of the Royal Convent of Santa Mónica, Goa, India, 1731–1734.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Illustrations Introduction The Other Voice Historical Background and Analysis of the Manuscripts The Real Convento de Santa Mónica and the Mónicas Entrada de Bonifrate para Festa dos Reis Cartepaço da Muzica A Note on the Translations Translations Entrada de Bonifrate para Festa dos Reis Cartepaço da Muzica Appendices1. Nuns Commemorated in Entrada de Bonifrate para Festa dos Reis 2. Nuns Commemorated in Cartepaço da Muzica Bibliography Index