In Queer Companions Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the construction of
queer social relations at Pakistan's most important site of Sufi pilgrimage. Conjoining queer …

Deliberations and discussions on inter-caste relationships in South Asia so far have been
fixed within the confines of heterosexuality. Not only are heterosexual inter-caste …

This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to badhai performances throughout
South Asia, examining their characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in …

Too many of us working in the field feel the unspoken current that charges queer studies in
South Asia and carries us away from the representational politics that have dominated queer …

In July 2021, a series of gruesome videos exposed a case of brutal torture perpetrated by a
guru or leader of the trans feminine hijra community in eastern India. This guru was …

This article delves into the spectral and affective reserves of Zikr, the Sufi exercise of godly
remembrance. It explores how performances of religious longing broaden the moral …

In a new contribution to the anthropology of dreaming, I explore the epistemological and
affective excess of prophetic dreams, in an aura of dream-images dream-images. Collective …