- Hardcover: 302 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA (20 Dec 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 019513902X
- ISBN-13: 978-0195139020
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,873,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Urban's two volumes offer a magisterial overview and theoretically sophisticated interpretation of a group that is notoriously difficult to approach, either linguistically or in terms of context." --Journal of the American Oriental Society
"A refreshing blend of archival and field research, history of religions, postmodernism, and postcolonial studies."-- The Journal of Religion
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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.
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In the final chapter of the great sixteenth-century hagiography of Sri Caitanya, the Caitanya-caritamrta, there is one particularly enigmatic little verse, which Advaita Acarya sends as a coded message to his master, Caitanya. Read the first page
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In the final chapter of the great sixteenth-century hagiography of Sri Caitanya, the Caitanya-caritamrta, there is one particularly enigmatic little verse, which Advaita Acarya sends as a coded message to his master, Caitanya. Read the first page
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