The chapter
 " III. AT THE CROSSROADS : A STUDY OF MOTHER-GODDESS CULT SITES"
in D D Kosambi's
 
Myth and Reality has this approach.
 
The book is available for download at
 
http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CC8QFjADahUKEwjXtenj_MfGAhXBJKYKHRkrD6I&url=http%3A%2F%2Fplaypen.meraka.csir.co.za%2F~acdc%2Feducation%2FDr_Anvind_Gupa%2FLearners_Library_7_March_2007%2FResources%2Fbooks%2Fmythandreality.pdf&ei=pzmbVZfGF8HJmAWZ1ryQCg&usg=AFQjCNFkklCAseXXtuE5_OUf9JL6KBZu3Q
 
Rise of a Folk God : Vitthal of Pandharpur
 
by
 
Ramchandra Chintaman Dhere
 
Oxford University Press
 
is there in googlebooks.

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Prof.Nagaraj Paturi
Hyderabad-500044