Table of Contents
Acknowledgments v
Foreword Ruth Vanita 1
Introduction: Perceptions of Masculinity and Challenges to the Indian Male Rohit K. Dasgupta K. Moti Gokulsing 5
"Sane Sex," the Five-Year Plan Hero and Men on Footpaths and in Gated Communities: On the Cultures of Twentieth-Century Masculinity Sanjay Srivastava 27
Critical Masculinity Studies in India Mangesh Kulkarni 54
If Singularity Is the Problem, Could Intersectionality Be the Solution? Exploring the Mediation of Sexuality on Masculinity Roshan Das Nair 73
Bearly Indian: "Fat" Gay Men's Negotiation of Embodiment, Culture and Masculinity Pranta Pratik Patnaik 93
The Nation as Mimicry: The (Mis)reading of Colonial Masculinities in India Kama Maureemootoo 106
Mobilizing for Sexual Health: The Experience of Queer Indian Men in London David A. Ansari 126
Masculinities of Desire, Derision and Defiance: Global Gay Femmephobia and Kothi-Hijra-Tians Heterosexualities Aniruddha Dutta 142
Corporal Punishment: English and Homosocial Tactility in Postcolonial Bengal Niladri R. Chatterjee 165
Of Girmitiyas and Mimic Men: Alternative Masculinity in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas Vishnuppiya Sengupta 174
Gay Writing and the Idea of Doubleness Akhil Katyal 187
Negotiations of Masculinity in Ritwik Ghatak's Partition Trilogy Tanmayee Banerjee 201
Masculinizing the (Post)colonial Subject: The Arnar Chitra Katha Comic Book Sayantan Dasgupta 217
Rethinking the Circuits of Male Desire Across Multiple Dostanas Dashini Jeyathurai 227
About the Contributors 241
Index 243
