Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Foreword 7
4. Note on Transliterations 8
5. Introduction 9
6. 1 Current Research on Nāth Yogīs . Further Directions 31
7. 2 Powerful Yogīs . The Successful Quest for Siddhis and Power 55
8. 3 Kingly Corruption and Ascetic Sovereignty in the Telugu Account of the Nine Nāths 81
9. 4 In Siddhis and State . Transformations of Power in Twentieth-Century Gorakhpur Temple Publications 103
10. 5 The Search for the Jugi Caste in Pre-Colonial Bengal 131
11. 6 Back When We Were Brahmins . Historical and Caste Critique Among Bengali Householder Nāths 163
12. 7 Shades of Power . The Nāth Yogīs in Nepal 197
13. 8 Yogī, Paṇḍit, and Rāṣṭra-Bhakta . Some Reconstructions of Yogī Naraharināth’s Religious Career 227
14. 9 The Evocative Partnerships of a Monastic Nāth Temple in Contemporary Rajasthan 249
15. 10 Towards a Nāth Re-Appropriation of Haṭha-Yoga 281
16. Index 307