Queering India : same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society /

Table of Contents:

The politics of penetration: section 377 of the Indian penal code / Suparna Bhaskaran
Sultan Mahmud's makover: colonial homophobia and the Persian-Urdu literary tradition / Scott Kugle
Doganas and zanakhis: The invention and subsequent erasure of Urdu poetry's "lesbian" voice / Carla Petievich
Alienation, intimacy, and gender: problems for a history of love in South Asia / Indrani Chatterjee
Eunuchs, lesbians, and other mythical beasts: queering and dequeering the Kama Sutra / Michael J. Sweet
Loving well: homosexuality and utopian thought in post/colonial India / Leela Gandhi
"Do I remove my skin?": interrogating identity in Suniti Namjoshi's fables / Anannya Dasgupta
"Queernesses all mine": interrogating same sex desire in Kamala Das's fiction and poetry / Rosemary Marangoly George
Homophobic fiction/homoerotic advertising: the pleasures and perils of twentieth-century Indianness / Ruth Vanita
What Mrs. Besahara saw: reflections on the gay goonda / Lawrence Cohen
A different desire, a different femininity: theatrical transvestism in the Parsi; Quiarati, and Marathi theaters, 1850-1940 / Kathryn Hansen
Queer bonds: male friendships in contemporary Malayalam cinema / Muraleedharan T.
"I sleep behind you": male homosociality and homoeroticism in Indian parallel cinema / Thomas Waugh
Queer pleasures for queer people: film, television, and queer sexuality in India / Shohini Ghosh
On fire: sexuality and its incitements / Geeta Patel
After the fire / Monica Bachmann.