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- Tarakeswar_affair abstract "The Tarakeswar affair (also known as the Tarakeswar scandal or the Mahant-Elokeshi affair) refers to a public scandal in 19th-century Calcutta (Kolkata), then the capital of the British Raj. It resulted from an illicit love affair between Elokeshi, the wife of a government employee Nobin Chandra, and the Brahmin head priest (or mahant) of the Tarakeswar Shiva temple. Nobin subsequently decapitated his wife Elokeshi because of the love affair. A highly publicised trial followed, dubbed the Tarakeswar murder case of 1873, in which both the husband and the mahant were found guilty in varying degrees.Bengali society considered the mahant 's actions as punishable and criminal, while justifying Nobin's action of killing an unchaste wife. The resulting public outrage forced authorities to release Nobin after two years. The scandal became the subject of Kalighat paintings and several popular Bengali plays, which often portrayed Nobin as a devoted husband. The mahant is generally presented as a womaniser, who takes advantage of young women. The murder victim Elokeshi is sometimes blamed as a seductress, the root cause of the affair. However, she is sometimes absolved of all guilt and is portrayed to have been tricked and raped by the mahant. Elokeshi's parents, with whom she stayed in Tarakeswar while Nobin was away on work in Calcutta, are considered guilty for the event.".
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- Tarakeswar_affair wikiPageWikiLink Bengal.
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- Tarakeswar_affair wikiPageWikiLink Calcutta.
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- Tarakeswar_affair wikiPageWikiLink Category:1873_in_India.
- Tarakeswar_affair wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_Kolkata.
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- Tarakeswar_affair wikiPageWikiLinkText "Tarakeswar affair".
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- Tarakeswar_affair subject Category:1873_in_India.
- Tarakeswar_affair subject Category:History_of_Kolkata.
- Tarakeswar_affair subject Category:Hooghly_district.
- Tarakeswar_affair subject Category:Murder_in_India.
- Tarakeswar_affair subject Category:Religious_scandals.
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- Tarakeswar_affair subject Category:Sex_scandals.
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- Tarakeswar_affair comment "The Tarakeswar affair (also known as the Tarakeswar scandal or the Mahant-Elokeshi affair) refers to a public scandal in 19th-century Calcutta (Kolkata), then the capital of the British Raj. It resulted from an illicit love affair between Elokeshi, the wife of a government employee Nobin Chandra, and the Brahmin head priest (or mahant) of the Tarakeswar Shiva temple. Nobin subsequently decapitated his wife Elokeshi because of the love affair.".
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