Pink Revolutions : Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India / Nishant Shahani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shahani, Nishant, 1976- author.

Series:

Critical insurgencies.

Critical Insurgencies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Political aspects--India.

Homosexuality.

Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Hinduism.

Gay liberation movement--India.

Gay liberation movement.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 294 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Pink Revolutions describes how queer politics in India occupies an uneasy position between the forces of neoliberal globalization, on the one hand, and the nationalist Hindu fundamentalism that has emerged since the 1990s, on the other"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. "This Is Not the Morning We Were Waiting For": Theorizing Pink Revolutions

"Revolutionary" Reform, Reformist "Revolution"

Safe in the City: Gay Tourism in India and the Politics of Worlding

Queer Privacy during Seditious Times: Re-Touching the Case of Ramchandra Siras

Patently Queer: The Late Effects of Illness during Revolutionary Times

Beyond the Banyan Tree: Diasporic Mobility in Passages Away from India

Afterword. A Delayed Postscript.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8101-4363-1