Charu Gupta: 3 books
Sexuality, Obscenity, Community
Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
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 women's sexuality and Muslim debauchery were used to pull together...
The Gender of Caste
Representing Dalits in Print
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Caste and gender are complex markers of difference that have traditionally been addressed in isolation from each other, with a presumptive maleness present in most studies of Dalits (“untouchables”) and a presumptive upper-casteness in many feminist studies. In this study of the representations...
Contested Coastlines
Fisherfolk, Nations and Borders in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This book is about the tragic journeys and livelihood insecurities of coastal fisherfolk jailed by India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh for having entered each other’s territorial waters. While reflecting on national anxieties and the deleterious politics of boundaries, it reveals how these...