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...Ruth Vanita Duke University Press 2005 BORN OF TWO VAGINAS Love and Reproduction between Co-Wives in Some Medieval Indian Texts Ruth Vanita Fourteenth-century devotional texts from Bengal recount different versions of the story of the hero Bhagiratha’s birth to two queens who...

.... [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Bengal Andamans Settlement penology sodomy global sexual science Testifying before the Indian Jails Committee in 1919, Irish medical officer John Mulvany stunned the colonial administration by accusing Walter Buchanan...

... of rural Bengal, who haunted what metropolitan queer feminists could do and be in a new millennium” (51). That eloquent silence leapt to mind immediately when I read Srila Roy's Changing the Subject , published sixteen years after Playing with Fire . In this book, Roy returns to two of the most...

... of chapter 3. As another constitutive part of the emerging mode of social scientific description, forensic medical accounts followed a circular form of reason- ing between anatomical description of women s bodies, speculative deviant typolo- gies (e.g., Kulin Brahman polygamous wives of Bengal), criminal...

... and the Colonial Archive in India . Next Wave. Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Banerjee Sumanta . 1998 . Under the Raj: Prostitution in Colonial Bengal . New York : Monthly Review Press . Crenshaw Kimberlé . 1991 . “ Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics...

..., and media arts at Ohio State University. Their dialogical film experimentations concern the relationships between displacement, citizenship, border, and loneliness. Ahmed also cofounded Queer Archives of the Bengal Delta, a community-based transnational archive. Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press...

... Bengal Transgender Welfare Board questionable (Bhattacharya 2015 ). Though Banerjee's support for Bandyopadhyay is welcome, the former had entrusted the local police to authenticate the identity of brihannalas (transwomen) and prevent begging on the street ( Anandabazar Patrika 2018 ). These desires...

... unrelated to the regulation of sexuality. So it is that this small story about the prosecution of unnatural offenses in a penal colony in the Bay of Bengal opens onto an inquiry about the relationship of forced prison migration to the disciplinary technologies enlisted by state security...

... THE GARDEN 555 much more than during the day. Girandoles and Bengal lights are lit in the paths and above the pools. Immobile in the deck chairs one always fears being struck by cinders or sparks. Colored lanterns hung all along wires light up the rows of bod- ies. The beings arrive, dancing...

... in Women: Towards a Political Economy of Sex.” In Towards an Anthropology of Women , edited by Reiter Reina R. , 157 – 210 . New York : Monthly Review Press . Sarkar Tanika . 1992 . “The Hindu Wife and the Hindu Nation: Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth Century Bengal...

... .” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 47 , no. 1 : 79 – 97 . Chakraborty Rohit . 2019 . “ Resident Outsiders: Imagining Homeland through Kipling and His Contemporaries in Colonial Bengal .” The Caravan , December 1 , 100 – 107 . Chakraborty Rohit . 2023 . “ Who...

... the colonized. Mrinalini Sinha’s goal in her study of nineteenth-century Bengal can be taken, mutatis mutandis, as convergent with my own: “to demonstrate that late nineteenth-century notions of English/British masculinity or Bengali/Indian effeminacy cannot be understood simply from...