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Baptists --- Infant baptism. --- Fort, William. --- Stillingfleet, Edward,

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Working with Bengali mentors, especially his close friend A. B. Ghose, Sir John Woodroffe became the pseudonymous orientalist Arthur Avalon, famous for his tantric studies at the beginning of the twentieth century. Best known for The Serpent Power, the book which introduced 'Kundalini Yoga' to the western world, Avalon turned the image of Tantra around, from that of a despised magical and orgiastic cult into a refined philosophy which greatly enhanced the prestige of Hindu thought to later generations of westerners.This biographical study is in two parts. The first focuses on

Indologists --- Indian studies specialists --- Asianists --- Tamilologists --- Woodroffe, John George, --- Avalon, Arthur, --- Bengal (India) --- Bengal --- Fort William (India) --- Presidency of Fort William (India) --- Bengale (India) --- Baṅgāla (India) --- Eastern Bengal and Assam (India) --- West Bengal (India) --- East Bengal (Pakistan)

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This book attempts to understand the commercial and social history of erstwhile Bengal in terms of its links with it neighbouring countries in the northern region of the Bay of Bengal. It touches upon the key issues in both maritime and territorial history such as the early medieval trade revolution and its impact on the borders of Bengal.The discussion focusses on Southeast Bengal - the most economically developed area of Bengal in terms of transport networks, agriculture, artisan products and trade. Most of this area underwent two major transformations in the twentieth century: once as a result of the formation of East Pakistan in 1947 and a second time after the formation of Bangladesh in 1971. The volume concludes with certain major issues of concern between India and Bangladesh at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Merchants --- Commerce --- Business & Economics --- Local Commerce --- Businesspeople --- History --- Bengal (India) --- Bengal --- Fort William (India) --- Presidency of Fort William (India) --- Bengale (India) --- Baṅgāla (India) --- Eastern Bengal and Assam (India) --- West Bengal (India) --- East Bengal (Pakistan)

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A terrifying sound disturbs the peace of Hansuli Turn, a forest village in Bengal, and the community splits as to its meaning. Does it herald the apocalyptic departure of the gods or is there a more rational explanation? The Kahars, inhabitants of Hansuli Turn, belong to an untouchable "criminal tribe" soon to be epically transformed by the effects of World War II and India's independence movement. Their headman, Bonwari, upholds the ethics of an older time, but his fragile philosophy proves no match for the overpowering machines of war. As Bonwari and the village elders come to believe the gods have abandoned them, younger villagers led by the rebel Karali look for other meanings and a different way of life.As the two factions fight, codes of authority, religion, sex, and society begin to break down, and amid deadly conflict and natural disaster, Karali seizes his chance to change his people's future. Sympathetic to the desires of both older and younger generations, Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay depicts a difficult transition in which a marginal caste fragments and mutates under the pressure of local and global forces. The novel's handling of the language of this rural society sets it apart from other works of its time, while the village's struggles anticipate the dilemmas of rural development, ecological and economic exploitation, and dalit militancy that would occupy the center of India's post-Independence politics.Negotiating the colonial depredations of the 1939-45 war and the oppressions of an agrarian caste system, the Kahars both fear and desire the consequences of a revolutionized society and the loss of their culture within it. Lyrically rendered by one of India's great novelists, this story of one people's plight dramatizes the anxieties of a nation and the resistance of some to further marginalization.

Bengali fiction. --- Bengali literature --- Bengal (India) --- Rural conditions. --- Bengal --- Fort William (India) --- Presidency of Fort William (India) --- Bengale (India) --- Baṅgāla (India) --- Eastern Bengal and Assam (India) --- West Bengal (India) --- East Bengal (Pakistan) --- Tribes --- Villages --- Hamlets (Villages) --- Village government --- Cities and towns --- Tribes and tribal system --- Families --- Clans --- Rural conditions

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Dans une enquête anthropologique qui étudie les interactions entre croyances collectives et expériences individuelles et développe une approche cognitive des faits de croyance, Marine Canin montre combien il importe pour l’éthnologie religieuse du monde indien de prendre en compte les stratégies individuelles. Partant d'histoires de vie de femmes dont elle a partagé l'existence au Bengale, l'auteur montre comment l'infortune qui frappe la personne est réinterprétée en termes de causalité religieuse dans des formes de culte non institutionnalisés. La plupart de ces femmes ont en effet vécu des expériences traumatisantes et ont été amenées à la dévotion à la suite d'un rejet, voire d'une exclusion ou d'une mort sociale. Personnage principal du livre, Parvati, par exemple, fonde un sanctuaire thérapeutique dédie à Shiva et à Kali, à la suite d'un mariage en dehors du groupe santal auquel elle appartenait à l' origine. On assiste alors à l'émergence d'un type nouveau de prêtrise féminine où l'expression de la dévotion voisine avec des formes populaires d' exorcisme . Tiraillées entre les divinités du monde tribal et les dieux hindous, ces personnes cherchent plus ou moins consciemment à revendiquer une identité sur le mode religieux, en manipulant des concepts liés au rituel pour les resituer dans leurs situations individuelles. Dès lors, certains symboles corporels exprimant l'ambivalence sexuelle permettent aux dévots des deux sexes de trouver de nouvelles formes d'éfficacité thérapeutique : c'est le cas des ojha, prêtres tribaux santal qui se féminisent pour assurer les cultes dont ils ont la charge et des prêtresses qui, inversement, adoptent des caractères masculins pour officier dans les sanctuaires. Au Bengale, dans un contexte où les différences entre tribus et castes tendent a s'estomper, la notion d'acculturation des Santal au monde hindou apparaît donc centrale dans un milieu fortement imprégné des cultes tantriques.

Women priests --- Priests, Hindu --- Hindu women --- Religious life. --- Bengal (India) --- Religion. --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Hinduism --- Santals (South Asian people) --- Women [Bengali ] --- Religious life --- Bengal --- Fort William (India) --- Presidency of Fort William (India) --- Bengale (India) --- Baṅgāla (India) --- Eastern Bengal and Assam (India) --- West Bengal (India) --- East Bengal (Pakistan) --- Women priests - India - Bengal. --- Priests, Hindu - India - Bengal. --- Hindu women - Religious life. --- Bengal (India) - Religion. --- prêtrise féminine --- croyance --- prêtre-devin --- caste --- dévotion (anthropologie)