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1 online resource (147 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover ; Half Title; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A myth of dismemberment; Sati and her rise as a patriotic icon; The formation of Hindu identity: from cultural to revolutionary nationalism; Layout of the book; 1 Kalighat souvenirs and the creation of Sati's iconography; Sati's place in the visual rhetoric of motherland; Sati's portrayal in Kalighat pilgrimage souvenirs; The invocation and reinvention of Sati; The romanticisation of martyrdom; Subverting Christian iconography |
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Shiva, asceticism and Bengali masculinitySati, suttee and the story of Padmini; The enduring power of Sati; 2 Kamakhya's erotic-apotropaic potency and the forging of sacred geography; Martial and maternal: Kamakhya's sculptures; The promotion of fertility and protection: Kamakhya's female archer; Subversive sexuality: the reception of Kamakhya during the colonial period; Colonial mapping versus sacred geography; Bengal's love affair with Kamakhya: pilgrimage as a nationalist device; 3 Tantra's revolutionary potential: Tarapith and Bamakhepa's visualisation of Tara; Understanding Tara |
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Understanding Tantric ritual through TaraBamakhepa, Tantra and revolutionary potential; Terrifying and benevolent: visions of Tara; The sweetening of death; 4 Contesting the colonial gaze: Image worship debates in nineteenth centuryBengal; Murtipuja, darshan and rituals of consecration; Ram Mohan Roy and the Brahmo Samaj movement; 'Inconsistent with the moral order of the universe': the Reverend Hastie's views on murtipuja; The backlash: Bengali responses to Hastie; The Saligram idol case: murti and artefact; The Attahas and Khirogram Pithas: the charisma of antique murtis; Conclusion |
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Reviving Sati's corpse: Mother India tours and Hindutva in the twenty-first centuryBibliography; Index |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351840019 |
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1351840010 |
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