This is the first ever English translation of a book that began the first major public debate on gay rights in modern India. Pandey Bechan Sharma ("Ugra"), claimed that Chocolate (1927) would help rid the nation of "vice" but his critics argued that his book was obscene. In her Introduction Ruth Vanita, who has extensively studied same-sex ...
Presents a collection of essays that interrogates a variety of Indian texts and contexts along interesting axes of gender, nation and desire, addressing both the material and the representational.
This work looks at the legacy of love between women in the English canon from romantic to postcolonial literature. It examines layers of homoeroticism in works by male and female authors, and demonstrates the place of lesbian desire in the Western literary imagination.
This volume makes available for the first time in English the work of a significant Indian nationalist author, Pandey Bechan Sharma, better known in India as 'Ugra' ('Extreme'). His book "Chocolate", a 1927 collection of eight stories, was the first work of Hindi fiction to focus on male same-sex relations, and its publication sparked India's ...
"Same-Sex Love in India" presents an array of writings on same-sex love from over 2000 years of Indian literature. Translated from more than a dozen languages and drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, and modern fictional traditions, these writings testify to the presence of same- sex love in various forms since ancient times, without overt ...
This text presents an array of writings on same-sex love from 2000 years of Indian literature. Translated from over a dozen languages and drawn from Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, and modern secular traditions, these writings testify to the flourishing of same-sex love in various forms since ancient times, without overt persecution. This collection ...
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