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... Through a detailed ethnographic reconstruction, chapter 7 examines different forms of state violence and their impact on the lives of the urban poor. It also reflects on the limits of understanding the impacts of violence on people’s hearts and minds. Rather than isolating episodes...

... The history of secularism is not confined to a given nation-state but follows transnational dynamics, unsettling distinctions and accelerating borrowings between the secular and the religious. Secularism is a mode of state governance as well as a set of moral values for the governance...

... differently from its original intent. This approach leads to a fuller understanding of how juridical mechanisms bring within its fold a web of crime, sexual practices, and subjects, thereby reaffirming the indispensability of law and, by extension, the state in preserving sociosexual order. Reading case law...

...) Trust’s writ filed in 2001 was constrained by its pivot to the state and a reductive understanding of the antisodomy law. Drawing on fieldwork at Naz Foundation as well as interviews with sexuality rights activists and visits to organizations across five major metropoles—Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata...

... 377, a coalition of Delhi-based groups, on the historic Delhi High Court ruling. Reading this decision alongside the apex court’s overruling, the chapter makes the case that the two judgments represent diverging views of the relationship between state and sexuality in postliberalized India. Thus...