The Rise and Fall of a Monastic Network in Colonial Bengal
Combining textual analysis and site-specific field study, this paper explores the extension into southwestern Bengal of the Dasnami Sampraday in the early 17th century, mapping the emplacement of a network of satellite monastic sites in relation to a new principal “seat” (gaddi) at Tarakeshwar, and charting the rapid deterioration of these sites beginning in the late colonial period.
Date:
13 June 2019, 14:00
Venue:
13-15 Magdalen St, Oxford OX1 3AE
Speaker:
Prof. Brian A. Hatcher (J.P. And Beena Khaitan Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Faculty of Theology and Religion
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editors:
Frances Roach,
Catherine Sloan
