Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History
ed. Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai
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Two thousand years of writing on love between women and between men, from Indian literature and history.
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India2001 to 2018
Queer activists challenged the colonial-era law that criminalised same-sex relations. The Delhi High Court read it down in 2009, the Supreme Court restored it in 2013, and in 2018 a five-judge bench decriminalised consensual same-sex relations between adults.
Naz Foundation; Voices Against 377; the petitioners in Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India; queer collectives across India.
Decriminalisation of same-sex relations, then equal rights in marriage, family and work.
ed. Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai
Be the first to review it
Two thousand years of writing on love between women and between men, from Indian literature and history.