Calcutta Telegraph | Durga Puja in 19th century Bengal: Devotion or decadence? Merinews - DURGA PUJA earlier was confined to the temples dedicated to the goddess. It was around the 1720s that Raja Krishna Chandra Rai of Nadia made it popular and it was his opulent style of celebration of the festival that caught the imagination of the ... The goddess creates new art Worship with a difference |