Same-Sex Love in India
Subtitle: Readings from Literature and History
Contributors: Ruth Vanita (Editor); Saleem Kidwai (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 22, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780312293246
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Gay & Lesbian studies; Literary studies: general; Political Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Indic, East Indo-European & Dravidian Languages; Politics/International Relations; India; Asian - Indic; Gay & Lesbian; Homosexuality; Literary Criticism & Collections / Gay & Lesbian; Literary Criticism-Asian - Indic; Love; Social Science / Lesbian Studies; Asia - India & South Asia; International Relations - General; Lesbian Studies
First sentence: There is no watertight division between ancient and medieval texts, so most of the patterns traced in this introduction are also relevant to the medieval texts in the Sanskritic tradition, some of which I discuss here.