Mutating Goddesses traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities - Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi—- from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism to argue for a historical evolution/devolution of divinities in tandem with sectarian interests and illumines in the process the knotted correlation of gender, caste and class in the sanctioning of female subjectivities through goddess formation. The critical studies of Hindu goddesses have been dominated by the sastrik perspective deriving from the Sanskrit scriptures authorized by the male Brahman. Saswati Sengupta has been teaching English literature at Miranda House, Delhi University, for more than thirty years.She has varied academic publications. Saswati's novel, The Song Seekers (2011) was listed for DSC prize for South Asian Literatures, 2013, has also been translated into Italian as La Dea Combattente.