Mutating goddesses : Bengal's laukika Hinduism and gender rights / Saswati Sengupta.

First edition.

9780190993269 (electronic book)

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2020.

English

1 online resource (375 pages).

BL1216.4

294.52114095414

'Mutating Goddesses' traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities - Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi - from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism, and especially its laukika archive as opposed to the sastrik deriving from Sanskrit scriptures authorized by the Brahman, to argue for a historical evolution/devolution of divinities and the knotted correlation of gender, caste and class in the sanctioning of female subjectivities through goddess formation.

'Mutating Goddesses' traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities - Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi - from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism, and especially its laukika archive as opposed to the sastrik deriving from Sanskrit scriptures authorized by the Brahman, to argue for a historical evolution/devolution of divinities and the knotted correlation of gender, caste and class in the sanctioning of female subjectivities through goddess formation.

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