(a) The Tarkeshwar Movement refers to a public scandal in –century Bengal during 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 Tarkeshwar Shiva temple. Nobin subsequently decapitated his wife Elokeshi because of the love affair.A highly publicised trial followed,dubbed the Tarkeshwar murder case of 1873, in which both the husband and the mahant were found guilty in varying degrees.