Index 367 Abhinavagupta, xvi, 34–35, 189, 249, 293n121. See also Tantràloka àgamas, 28–29, 43, 48 ÄgamavàgíMa, KKãJànanda, xi, 39, 292n105 Aghorís, xiii, 261, 267–68, 275 akhaJja mahàyoga, 189–90 America, 154–55, 203, 212, 215, 224– 25, 230–31, 235–38, 242, 249, 251, 259, 270, 273 American Tantra, 5, 204, 215, 226, 252– 53, 270 Änandamaåh, 91, 94, 122–25, 304n68 anàtman, 43 anuttara-yoga, 31 Äryan myth, 54–55 Äryans, 6, 24, 48, 54–55, 140, 156, 172, 184, 195–96 Ärya Samàj, 45, 60 Assam, xii, 28, 90, 289n69 Atharva Veda, xv, 4, 25, 42–43 Avalon, Arthur, 135, 295n26; as dual identity, 139, 310n2. See also Ghose, Atal Behari; Woodroffe, Sir John avatàr, 89, 93, 135, 148, 153–54, 156, 163 Bàmàkãepa, 275–76 Bande Mataram, 94, 123–25, 130, 188 Baptist Missionary Society, 50, 157 Bengal, xii, 19, 28, 61, 64, 67, 89–90, 117, 122, 126–31, 144, 187–88, 193, 199; pervaded by Tantra, 59, 63, 160 Bengal Renaissance, 21, 46, 61–62, 69 Benjamin, Walter, 3, 14, 16, 19, 87–88, 97, 265 Bernard, Pierre Arnold, 22, 116, 206, 208–15, 219, 222, 236, 322n9, 323n16. See also Tantrik Order in America Bhabha, Homi, 82, 108, 131 Bhàgavata PuràJa, xv, 27, 36, 290n85 Bhairava, 107, 108, 150. See also Tiva Bhairaví BràhmaJí, 150–51, 312n43 bhakti, 69 Bharati, Agehananda, 16, 40, 158, 165– 66, 201, 207–8, 232, 270–71, 317n5 Bhattacharyya, Narendra Nath, 7, 167, 187, 191–202, 320nn93,94 Bhowani (Bhawani), 82, 95 bio-politics, 45, 58 black magic, 52, 143, 208 Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, 208 Brahman, 25, 42, 65, 142, 190 BràhmaJas, 26 Bràhmo Samàj, 45, 64, 68, 127 BKhat-Tantrasàra, xi, 39, 65, 292n105 Buddha, 30, 36, 233, 241, 259 Buddhism, 1, 43, 52–54, 161, 163, 208, 235; Tantric, 15–16, 28–31, 52, 71, 158, 233–34, 251, 270, 273, 290n90, 291n101, 293n121, 296n33. See also Mantrayàna; Vajrayàna Burton, Sir Richard Francis, 110–11, 208, 307nn10,11. See also Kàma SÜtra cakra (pÜjà), 50, 66, 111–12, 119 cakras, 250, 253 Calcutta, xii–xiii, 91–92, 137–38, 144, 148, 160, 193 Campbell, Joseph, 201–3 capitalism, 3, 12–13, 16, 20, 22, 226, 236, 251, 266, 326n73; late or disorganized , 207, 254–60, 262–63, 278–80, 285n8, 330n161, 331n162, 333n18 caryà, 31 Catholicism, compared with Tantra, 139, 143, 174 censorship, 136, 147, 152–53, 162–64, 249–50. See also secrecy Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra, 91, 94, 119–26, 132, 144, 158, 304n68. See also Änandamaåh; Bande Mataram Chinnamastà, 97, 101 Christianity, xii, 2, 8, 47, 49–50, 59, 62–63, 83, 114, 121, 157–58, 169, 174, 195, 197, 261; superseded by Tantra, 147, 171, 178, 221, 224, 240, 327n82 Church of Tantra, 204 coincidentia oppositorum, 179, 186 Colebrooke, H. T., 48–49, 59 colonialism, xiii, 11–12, 17, 19, 21, 44– 105, 189, 266, 269, 273, 278–79, 288n57 communism, 192–94; Tantra as, 196, 199–201, 320n90 Crowley, Aleister, 22, 113, 206, 208, 216, 218–23, 239, 258 “curry-effect,” 204 cyber space, 22, 250–54, 330n149 Dakãinàcàra, 33–34 devadàsís, 58, 109, 306n8 Deví Bhàgvata PuràJa, 35 devil worship, 52, 54 Deví Màhàtmya, 77 dialectical image, 3, 4, 14–16, 87–88, 97, 104, 265–66, 285n11, 288n61. See also Benjamin, Walter; mimesis Doniger, Wendy, xiv, 25 Dravidians, 54–55 drugs, 221, 223–24, 231, 257 Dubois, Abbé, 49–50 Durgà, 77, 101, 128–29, 198, 310n70 East India Company, 47 ecstasy, xii, 9, 16, 22, 112, 119, 203, 228, 236, 247, 258, 277; on-line, 206, 253 Eliade, Mircea, 8, 10, 13, 22, 24, 165–68, 179–86, 193–94, 202–3, 318nn45,50 Evola, Julius, 22, 166–68, 172–79, 183, 202, 221, 318n45 fascism, 22, 168–69, 172–81; Eliade and, 180–81; Evola and, 172–79 femininity, 3, 55, 57, 79, 96, 111, 154, 176, 297n48, 321n114 feminism, 114; and Tantra, 10, 146, 229 five M’s, xiii, 40, 66, 119, 150. See also pañcamakàra or pañcatattva Foucault, Michel, xi, 2, 10–11, 13–14, 45, 56, 58, 264, 274, 280–81 genealogy, 3, 13–14, 265–66 Ghose, Atal Behari, 138. See also Avalon, Arthur Ghose, Aurobindo, 64, 88–104, 130, 144, 155, 188...