Queering India is the first book to provide an understanding of same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society. The essays focus on pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial gay and lesbian life in India to provide a comprehensive look at a much neglected topic. The topics are wide-ranging, considering film, literature, popular culture, historical and religious texts, law and other aspects of life in India. Specifically, the essays cover such issues as Deepa Mehta's recent and controversial film, Fire, which focused on lesbian relationships in India; the Indian penal code which outlaws homosexual acts; a case of same-sex love and murder in colonial India; homophobic fiction and homoerotic advertising in current day India; and lesbian subtext in Hindu scripture. All of the essays are original to the collection. Queering India promises to change the way we understand India as well as gay and lesbian life and sexuality around the world.
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Queering India provides a fascinating, livley, and historically grounded discussionof the impact of same-sex love on Indian culture. Spanning a range of disciplines, these essays shatter the myth that homosexuality is a Western or Northern experience. This is an excellent collection
--Urvashi Vaid, co-editor of Creating Change: Public Policy, Sexuality, and Civil Rights.
Ruth Vanita's wonderful project bears fruit. She has assembled a superb collection of essays that establish the queerness of desis, the sexual struggle of Indian history. Queering India will annoy the despots, but forces of desire do not give in without a few good books.
--Vijay Prashad, author of The Karma of Brown Folk.
Queering India offers exactly what the best scholarship is supposed to. The book contains an impressive variety of ways to view a vast array of experiences, expressions, and perspectives on the lives of a complex and diverse part of the world. This collection will undermine any shallow assumptions or stereotypes one might hold about sexuality, gender, and daily life in South Asia
--Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity.
--Urvashi Vaid, co-editor of Creating Change: Public Policy, Sexuality, and Civil Rights.
Ruth Vanita's wonderful project bears fruit. She has assembled a superb collection of essays that establish the queerness of desis, the sexual struggle of Indian history. Queering India will annoy the despots, but forces of desire do not give in without a few good books.
--Vijay Prashad, author of The Karma of Brown Folk.
Queering India offers exactly what the best scholarship is supposed to. The book contains an impressive variety of ways to view a vast array of experiences, expressions, and perspectives on the lives of a complex and diverse part of the world. This collection will undermine any shallow assumptions or stereotypes one might hold about sexuality, gender, and daily life in South Asia
--Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity.
About the Author
Ruth Vanita is Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Montana. She is the co-editor of Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature (2000).
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The Indian Law Commission, presided over by Lord Macaulay, introduced the colonial antisodomy statue, Section 377, into the Indian Penal Code on October 6, 1860, in British India. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
diagetic space, parallel cinema, theatrical transvestism, antisodomy law, female impersonation, song sequence, popular cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Delhi, Kamala Das, South Asia, The Sandal Trees, Oxford University Press, Ruth Vanita, Shiv Sena, Bal Gandharva, Kama Sutra, Saleem Kidwai, United States, Uttar Pradesh, Sultan Mahmud, English August, Indian Penal Code, Edward Carpenter, Martin's Press, Blue Donkey, Ashis Nandy, Shohini Ghosh, Times of India, University of California Press, Deepa Mehra, Jayshankar Sundari New!
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The Indian Law Commission, presided over by Lord Macaulay, introduced the colonial antisodomy statue, Section 377, into the Indian Penal Code on October 6, 1860, in British India. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
diagetic space, parallel cinema, theatrical transvestism, antisodomy law, female impersonation, song sequence, popular cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Delhi, Kamala Das, South Asia, The Sandal Trees, Oxford University Press, Ruth Vanita, Shiv Sena, Bal Gandharva, Kama Sutra, Saleem Kidwai, United States, Uttar Pradesh, Sultan Mahmud, English August, Indian Penal Code, Edward Carpenter, Martin's Press, Blue Donkey, Ashis Nandy, Shohini Ghosh, Times of India, University of California Press, Deepa Mehra, Jayshankar Sundari New!
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- The Blue Donkey Fables by Suniti Namjoshi on 5 pages
- The Kama Sutra: The Hindu Art of Love, Complete Translation from the Original Sanskrit by Vatsyayana on 4 pages
- Feminist Fables by Suniti Namjoshi on 4 pages
- Conversations of Cow by Namjoshi in Front Matter, page 100, and page 107
- Intermediate Sex by Edward Carpenter on page 90, page 91, and page 98
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- Love in South Asia: A Cultural History (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications) by Francesca Orsini on 5 pages
- Made in India: Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/national Projects (Comparative Feminist Studies) by Suparna Bhaskaran on 4 pages
- Everyday Life in South Asia by Diane P. Mines on page 85, page 157, and Back Matter
- Sexuality And Human Rights: A Global Overview (Monograph Published Simultaneously as the Journal of Homosex) by Phillip Tahmindjis on page 215, page 217, and page 218
- Postcolonial Whiteness: A Critical Reader On Race And Empire by Alfred J. Lopez on page 74, page 75, and page 76
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