The Economics of Ecstasy

Tantra, Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal

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Hugh B Urban

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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, the Kartabhajas 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.

Release date NZ

December 20th, 2001

Author

Hugh B Urban

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Foreword by Wendy Doniger

Pages

302

Dimensions

163x241x25

ISBN-13

9780195139020

Product ID

2829281

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