Sakta-Tantric Icons and Erotic Images from Assam

Nilkamal Singha, Oinam Singh, Deepak Kumar

2023

Abstract

Assam is located on north-eastern part of India with rich cultural past. It came under the cultural influence of mainland India from time immemorial and ever since the mainland culture has made its inroads to Assam. These cultural traits include both tangible and intangible. Over the time the people living in Assam has adopted many beliefs and customs, art and architecture and sculptural art of mainland which include some of the extreme beliefs namely Shakta-Tantra. The present article aims to study and examine the Sakta-Tantra icons and erotic images of Assam protected and preserved by Directorate of Archaeology (DoA) and Assam State Museum (ASM).

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Singha N., Singh O. and Kumar D. (2023). Sakta-Tantric Icons and Erotic Images from Assam. In Proceedings of the 1st Pamir Transboundary Conference for Sustainable Societies - Volume 1: PAMIR; ISBN 978-989-758-687-3, SciTePress, pages 646-654. DOI: 10.5220/0012500300003792

in Bibtex Style

@conference{pamir23,
author={Nilkamal Singha and Oinam Singh and Deepak Kumar},
title={Sakta-Tantric Icons and Erotic Images from Assam},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st Pamir Transboundary Conference for Sustainable Societies - Volume 1: PAMIR},
year={2023},
pages={646-654},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012500300003792},
isbn={978-989-758-687-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st Pamir Transboundary Conference for Sustainable Societies - Volume 1: PAMIR
TI - Sakta-Tantric Icons and Erotic Images from Assam
SN - 978-989-758-687-3
AU - Singha N.
AU - Singh O.
AU - Kumar D.
PY - 2023
SP - 646
EP - 654
DO - 10.5220/0012500300003792
PB - SciTePress