Same-sex Love in India :

Same-sex Love in India : readings from literature and history / eedited by Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. - 370 p. ; 234 cm.

Hardcover version, St. Martins' Press, 2000.

Same-Sex Love in India presents an array of writings on same-sex love from over 2000 years of Indian literature. Translated from more than a dozen languages and drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, and fictional traditions, these writings testify to the presence of same-sex love in various forms since ancient times, without overt persecution.

Tertiary education; Professional and scholarly.

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Indic literature.
Homosexuality--Literary collections.
Love--Literary collections.

CTB/2B

891.1