Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History

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Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv Front Matter....Pages 1-30 Vyasa’s Mahabharata: “Sikhandin’s Sex Change” (Sanskrit)....Pages 31-36 Manikantha Jataka (Pali)....Pages 37-39 Vishnu Sharma’s Panchatantra (Sanskrit)....Pages 40-45 Vatsyayana’s Kamasutra....Pages 46-53 Front Matter....Pages 55-68 Bhagvata Purana: The Embrace of Shiva and Vishnu (Sanskrit)....Pages 69-71 Skanda Purana: Sumedha and Somavan (Sanskrit)....Pages 72-76 Shiva Purana: The Birth of Kartikeya (Sanskrit)....Pages 77-80 Shiva Purana: The Birth of Ganesha (Sanskrit)....Pages 81-84 Somadeva Bhatta’s Kathasaritsagara: Kalingasena and Somaprabha (Sanskrit)....Pages 85-89 Padma Purana: Arjuni (Sanskrit)....Pages 90-93 Ayyappa and Vavar: Celibate Friends....Pages 94-99 Krittivasa Ramayana: The Birth of Bhagiratha (Bengali)....Pages 100-102 Jagannath Das (Oriya)....Pages 103-105 Front Matter....Pages 107-125 Amir Khusro (Persian and Hindvi)....Pages 126-130 Ziauddin Barani: The Khaljis in Love (Persian)....Pages 131-135 The Mirror of Secrets: “Akhi” Jamshed Rajgiri (Persian)....Pages 136-139 Baburnama (Turkish)....Pages 140-142 “Mutribi” Samarqandi: The Fair and the Dark Boys (Persian)....Pages 143-144 Haqiqat al-Fuqara: Poetic Biography of “Madho Lal” Hussayn (Persian)....Pages 145-156 Sarmad (Persian)....Pages 157-158 Front Matter....Pages 107-125 Muhammad Akram “Ghanimat” Kanjohi: Love’s Sorcery (Persian)....Pages 159-160 Najmuddin Shah Mubarak “Abru”: Advice to a Beloved (Urdu)....Pages 161-168 Siraj Aurangabadi: The Garden of Delusion (Urdu)....Pages 169-172 Mir Abdul Hai “Taban”: A Lover Who Looked like a Beloved (Urdu)....Pages 173-174 Dargah Quli Khan: Portrait of a City (Persian)....Pages 175-183 Mir Taqi “Mir”: Autobiography (Persian) and Poems (Urdu)....Pages 184-190 Front Matter....Pages 191-217 Nazir Akbarabadi (Urdu)....Pages 218-219 Rekhti Poetry: Love between Women (Urdu)....Pages 220-228 Shri Ramakrishna Paramahansa....Pages 229-232 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee: Indira (Bengali)....Pages 233-235 The Kamasutra in the Twentieth Century....Pages 236-240 Gopabandhu Das: Poems Written in Prison (Oriya)....Pages 241-245 The New Homophobia: Ugra’s Chocolate....Pages 246-252 M. K. Gandhi: Reply to a Query (English)....Pages 253-256 Amrita Sher-Gil: Letters (English)....Pages 257-259 Hakim Muhammad Yusuf Hasan: Do Shiza (Urdu)....Pages 260-263 “Firaq” Gorakhpuri: Poet vs. “Critic” (Urdu)....Pages 264-266 Sharada: “Farewell” (Hindi)....Pages 267-269 Suryakant Tripathi “Nirala”: Kulli Bhaat (Hindi)....Pages 270-273 Josh Malihabadi: “There Will Never Be Another Like You” (Urdu)....Pages 274-282 Front Matter....Pages 191-217 Ismat Chughtai: Tehri Lakeer (Urdu)....Pages 283-288 Rajendra Yadav: “Waiting” (Hindi)....Pages 289-293 Bhupen Khakhar: A Story (Gujarati)....Pages 294-297 Kishori Charan Das: “Sarama’s Romance” (Oriya)....Pages 298-300 Crime of Passion....Pages 301-303 Shobhana Siddique: “Full to the Brim” (Hindi)....Pages 304-310 V. T. Nandakumar: Two Girls (Malayalam)....Pages 311-317 Vijay Dan Detha: “A Double Life” (Rajasthani)....Pages 318-324 Vikram Seth: Poems (English)....Pages 325-326 Nirmala Deshpande: “Mary Had a Little Lamb” (Marathi)....Pages 327-331 Vijay Tendulkar: Mitra’s Story (Marathi)....Pages 332-335 Sunil Gangopadhyay Those Days (Bengali)....Pages 336-341 H. S. Shivaprakash: Shakespeare Dreamship (Kannada)....Pages 342-346 Inez Vere Dullas: Poems (English)....Pages 347-348 Hoshang Merchant: Poems for Vivan (English)....Pages 349-351 Ambai: “One Person and Another” (Tamil)....Pages 352-355 Back Matter....Pages 357-370