Book(electronic)2017

Pilgrimage and politics in colonial Bengal: the myth of the goddess Sati

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Abstract

1. Kalighat souvenirs and the creation of Sati's iconography -- 2. Kamakhya's erotic-apotropaic potency and the forging of sacred geography -- 3. Tantra's revolutionary potential : Tarapith and Bamakhepa's visualisation of Tara -- 4. Contesting the colonial gaze : image worship debates in nineteenthcentury Bengal.

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