The Economics of Ecstasy Tantra Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal at Meripustak

The Economics of Ecstasy Tantra Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal

Books from same Author: Hugh B Urban and Foreword by Wendy Doniger

Books from same Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc

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    Author(s)Hugh B Urban and Foreword by Wendy Doniger
    PublisherOxford University Press Inc
    ISBN9780195139020
    Pages302
    BindingHardcover
    LanguageEnglish
    Publish YearDecember 2001

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    Oxford University Press Inc The Economics of Ecstasy Tantra Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal by Hugh B Urban and Foreword by Wendy Doniger

    This is a study of the Bengali Kartabhaja sect and its place in the broader movement of Tantrism, an Indian religious movement employing purposely shocking sexual language and rituals. Urban looks closely at the relationship between the rise of the Kartabhajas, who flourished at the turn of the 19th century, and the changing economic context of colonial Bengal. Made up of the poor lower classes laboring in the marketplaces and factories of Calcutta, theKartabhajas represent "the underworld of the imperial city." Urban shows that their esoteric poetry and songs are in fact saturated with the language of the marketplace and the bazaar, which becomes for them the key metaphor used to communicate secret knowledge and mystical teachings.show more