This book, based on the field survey, is about a village society in Bengal, and its relationship with Hindu kingship on the ritual organization of an old temple. The village temple is well known for being one of 51 Sakta-pithas mean centres of Sakti worship or seat of the goddess Sati (another name of the body parts of the goddess Sati fell to earth after she had been cut to pieces by the discus of Visnu. Every place believed to have a Sati’s limb became the ...
