What to read after Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal?

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of plates -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A myth of dismemberment -- Sati and her rise as a patriotic icon -- The formation of Hindu identity: from cultural to revolutionary nationalism -- Layout of the book -- 1 Kalighat souvenirs and the creation of Sati's iconography -- Sati's place in the visual rhetoric of motherland -- Sati's portrayal in Kalighat pilgrimage souvenirs -- The invocation and reinvention of Sati -- The romanticisation of martyrdom -- Subverting Christian iconography -- Shiva, asceticism and Bengali masculinity -- Sati, suttee and the story of Padmini -- The enduring power of Sati -- 2 Kamakhya's erotic-apotropaic potency and the forging of sacred geography -- Martial and maternal: Kamakhya's sculptures -- The promotion of fertility and protection: Kamakhya's female archer -- Subversive sexuality: the reception of Kamakhya during the colonial period -- Colonial mapping versus sacred geography -- Bengal's love affair with Kamakhya: pilgrimage as a nationalist device -- 3 Tantra's revolutionary potential: Tarapith and Bamakhepa's visualisation of Tara -- Understanding Tara -- Understanding Tantric ritual through Tara -- Bamakhepa, Tantra and revolutionary potential -- Terrifying and benevolent: visions of Tara -- The sweetening of death -- 4 Contesting the colonial gaze: Image worship debates in nineteenth centuryBengal -- Murtipuja, darshan and rituals of consecration -- Ram Mohan Roy and the Brahmo Samaj movement -- 'Inconsistent with the moral order of the universe': the Reverend Hastie's views on murtipuja -- The backlash: Bengali responses to Hastie -- The Saligram idol case: murti and artefact -- The Attahas and Khirogram Pithas: the charisma of antique murtis -- Conclusion