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 Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 0195134354
Release Date: Jan 10, 2000
| |  | | | In Brief
This book chronicles the rise and subsequent fortunes of goddess worship, or Saktism, in the region of Bengal from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. The primary documents are lyrics directed to the goddesses Kali and Uma, beginning with those of the first of the Sakta lyricist-devotees, Ramprasad Sen (c.1718-1775) and Kamalakanta Bhattacharya (c.1769-1821), and continuing up through those of the gifted poet Kaji Najrul Islam (1899-1976). The author has used extensive research from primary historical texts as well as from secondary Bengali and English source materials. She places the advent of the Sakta lyric in its historical context and charts the vicissitudes over time of this form of goddess worship, including the nineteenth-century resurgence of Saktism in the cause of Nationalist politics.
The main theme of the book is the way in which the images of the two goddesses evolved over the centuries. Kali is sweetened and democratized over time. Much of her fierce, wild, dangerous, and bloody character disappears, as she is increasingly seen as a compassionate and loving divine mother to her children. Uma, for her part, is gradually transformed from the gentle and remote wife of Shiva to the adored daughter of Bengali parents, increasingly humanized and colored with regional Bengali characteristics.
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About the Author
Rachel Fell McDermott is Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College. She is the author of Singing to the Goddess: Poems to Kali and Uma from Bengal
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| | | |  | | | | Notes on Transliteration | | | Introduction | 3 | | Pt. I | The Lives and Contexts of Sakta Poets | | | 1 | The Historical Background in Bengal | 15 | | 2 | Building Fences with Kali: Ramprasad Sen and the Popularization of the Tantric Goddess | 37 | | 3 | "Born in Ramprasad's Line to Revive Bhakti": Sadhaka Kamalakanta | 84 | | 4 | Inheritors of Tradition: Floating in the Sakta Stream | 128 | | Pt. II | The Changing Genre of Sakta Poetry | | | 5 | Setting the Literary and Religious Scene in Eighteenth-Century Bengal | 161 | | 6 | Dancing on the Heart-Lotus: Kali and the Ramprasad of Bengali Literature | 176 | | 7 | Keeping the Legacy Alive: Kamalakanta Bhattacarya and the Sakta Padavali Tradition | 204 | | 8 | "Ma, Come and Stay Awhile": Kali and Uma in Eighteenth-to Twentieth-Century Bengali Poetry | 232 | | Conclusion: Bhakti's Balm in Bengal | 286 | | Glossary | 305 | | Notes | 317 | | Bibliography | 411 | | Index | 423 |
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