In a Rapture of Distress: Women’s Sexuality and Modern India

By Amrita Narayanan Author Interviews

How do we think about sexual freedom in a way that is capacious enough to include countries that have not had a sexual revolution?

Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

By Jessica Hinchy Author Interviews

For many colonial officials, Hijras were not only a danger to ‘public morals’, but also a threat to colonial political authority.

Interrogating Our White Supremacist Present: A Roundtable on Global Histories of Racial Supremacy and Reproductive Control – Part 1

By Lina-Maria Murillo Race and Ethnicity

What can global histories of racial supremacy and reproductive control tell us about our white supremacist present?

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937

By Ishita Pande Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937 is a microhistory of a law restraining child marriages passed in colonial India in 1929.

Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Social Thought

By Durba Mitra Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Sexual Labour

How ideas of deviant female sexuality became foundational to modern social thought in colonial India.

“Cow protection or Gay protection?” LGBT rights, “Hindu” tradition and the Indian elections

By Onni Gust LGBTQ

Gender and sexuality has had an important role in recent public debates in India.

India’s Section 377: India, Britain and the ongoing legacies of imperialism

By Onni Gust Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ

The legacy of imperial Victorian sexual mores continue to haunt the lives of gay people in India and large parts of former British colonies.