Author: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Gautam Chakravarty/
Translator(s): Gautam Chakravarty
Publisher: The Book Review
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 111
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8188434035
Description
Kapalakundala is set around the year 1604-1605, when the Mughal state was still subduing the newly acquired province of Bengal, and it weaves together events that take place across two cultural words.
The first is the caste Hindu world of the pilgrims, of Nabakumar, Kapalakundala, the kapalika and the adhikari, and it turns on questions of love, marriage, womanly virtue, priestly and tantric ritual, one the codes and conventions of Hindu marriage, and the contrast between the householder’s life and that of the ascetic.
Alongside this insular provincial world there is the world of Agra and the imperial court, which are the space of political expediency and sexual license, of wealth, power, cunning and worldly sophistication.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Editor’s Preface
Foreword
Kapalakundala
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Afterword
Glossary