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

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How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in India During the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectuals-philologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social critics-deployed id

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"Honorable Mention for the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society Association"
"Winner of the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies"
"Mitra . . . . puts together archival material from diverse disciplines and overturns long-established notions and opens up new approaches for the global history of sexuality."---Soma Basu, The Hindu
"A remarkable study."---Soutik Biswas, BBC News
"Gives faces, voices, and lives to the women who emerge from the archivesand thus leaves the reader changed. . . . [Its] tracing of a multilingual, internationally circulating epistemological continuity in conjunction with the narration of the extreme violence of everyday acts that makes Indian Sex Life so powerful."---Veronika Fuechtner, Isis

Author Bio

Durba Mitra is assistant professor of studies in women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University and Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute.