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Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal: The Myth of the Goddess Sati [Mīkstie vāki]

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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 138 pages, height x width: 246x174 mm, weight: 258 g, 10 Illustrations, color; 28 Illustrations, black and white
  • Izdošanas datums: 21-Jan-2023
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032476931
  • ISBN-13: 9781032476933
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 138 pages, height x width: 246x174 mm, weight: 258 g, 10 Illustrations, color; 28 Illustrations, black and white
  • Izdošanas datums: 21-Jan-2023
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032476931
  • ISBN-13: 9781032476933
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From the late nineteenth century onwards the concept of Mother India assumed political significance in colonial Bengal. Reacting against British rule, Bengali writers and artists gendered the nation in literature and visual culture in order to inspire patriotism amongst the indigenous population. This book will examine the process by which the Hindu goddess Sati rose to sudden prominence as a personification of the subcontinent and an icon of heroic self-sacrifice. According to a myth of cosmic dismemberment, Sati’s body parts were scattered across South Asia and enshrined as Shakti Pithas, or Seats of Power. These sacred sites were re-imagined as the fragmented body of the motherland in crisis that could provide the basis for an emergent territorial consciousness. The most potent sites were located in eastern India, Kalighat and Tarapith in Bengal, and Kamakhya in Assam. By examining Bengali and colonial responses to these temples and the ritual traditions associated with them, including Tantra and image worship, this book will provide the first comprehensive study of this ancient network of pilgrimage sites in an art historical and political context.



This book represents the first attempt to study an ancient network of pilgrimage sites, known as Shakti Pithas, dedicated to the Hindu goddess Sati in an art historical and political context. During the nineteenth century these sites were re-imagined by Bengali writers and artists as the fragmented body of the motherland that could provide

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Ramos book is a compelling read and an important contribution to our larger understanding of the complex intersections between religion, politics, sacred space, pilgrimage, and national identity. [ This] is an important book that should be of genuine interest to anyone interested in the study of pilgrimage, sacred space, religious nationalism, and modern Indian history.

--Journal of South Asian Studies

Ramos weaves a narrative from the threads of traditional religious practices, shrines, visual culture, and politics into a whole cloth that gives us a better sense of the Bengali imagination undergoing its transformations of modernity in its distinctive way. Highly recommended.

--Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

This is a fascinating and well-crafted study that dwells substantially in the concrete rather than in the theoretical or the historiographical. Historians of Indian nationalism, art historians, and scholars of South Asian religion will all learn much from this valuable work.

--International Journal of Hindu Studies

Contents



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



Chapter One



Kalighat souvenirs and the creation of Satis iconography



Satis place in the visual rhetoric of motherland



Satis portrayal in Kalighat pilgrimage souvenirs



The invocation and reinvention of Sati



The romanticisation of martyrdom



Subverting Christian iconography



Shiva, asceticism and Bengali masculinity



Sati, suttee and the story of Padmini



The enduring power of Sati



Chapter Two



Kamakhyas erotic-apotropaic potency and the forging of sacred geography



Martial and maternal: Kamakhyas sculptures



The promotion of fertility and protection: Kamakhyas female archers



Subversive sexuality: The reception of Kamakhya during the colonial period



Colonial mapping versus sacred geography



Bengals love affair with Kamakhya: Pilgrimage as a nationalist device



Chapter Three



Tantras revolutionary potential: Tarapith and Bamakhepas visualisation of
Tara



Understanding Tara



Understanding Tantric ritual through Tara



Bamakhepa, Tantra and revolutionary potential



Terrifying and benevolent: Visions of Tara



The sweetening of death



Chapter Four



Contesting the colonial gaze: Image worship debates in nineteenth-century
Bengal

Murtipuja, darshan and rituals of consecration



Ram Mohan Roy and the Brahmo Samaj movement



Inconsistent with the moral order of the universe: The Reverend Hasties
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



Epilogue



Reviving Satis corpse: Mother India tours and Hindutva in the twenty-first
century



Bibliography
Imma Ramos is curator of the South Asia collections at the British Museum in London. Her research interests revolve around the relationship between religion, politics and gender in South Asian visual culture.