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Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal - The Myth of the Goddess Sati (Paperback)
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Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal - The Myth of the Goddess Sati (Paperback)
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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.
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