Sexuality, Obscenity, Community ; Women Muslims and the Hindu Public in Colonial India
By Charu Gupta.
Description
The cultural imagination of hindu india is the subject of this book anyone interested in the prehistory of present-day tensions between hindus and muslims will find it exceptionally valuable charu gupta shows how gendered notions about womens sexuality and muslim debauchery were used to pull together a heterogeneous populace into a coherent hindu community in colonial north india she traces the deliberations of (largely male) publicists on how to make hindu women pure, on how to distance hindus from muslims and on what constitutes hindu sacredness and purity as opposed to islamic lust and p...
ISBN(s)
8178241188, 9788178241180
