The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy, and Power in Colonial Bengal

by Wendy Doniger (Foreword), Hugh B. Urban (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $237.03

  This 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, looks at the relationship between the rise of the Kartabhajas and the changing economic context of colonial Bengal.