Street Corner Secrets challenges widespread notions of sex work in India by examining
solicitation in three spaces within the city of Mumbai that are seldom placed within the same …

Since the late 1990s, there has been an explosion of scholarship on South Asian legal
history. This article situates the new literature within the longer tradition of postcolonial South …

This article explores a relatively rare archival account of female subjectivity, experience,
mobility, and voice within a carceral institution in late-colonial Delhi. The capital's “Rescue …

The seismic shifts in Indian society which took place over the course of the 19th century
have been the focus of a number of studies in recent years. These changes permanently …

The vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow
with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside walls, creates a sexually charged …

In recent decades, there has been considerable interest in writing histories of medicine that
capture local, regional, and global dimensions of health and health care in the same frame …

Anglo-Indians are a mixed-race, Christian and Anglophone minority community which arose
in South Asia during the long period of European colonialism. An often neglected part of the …

This paper explores the regulation of prostitution in colonial India between the abolition of
the Indian Contagious Diseases Act in 1888 and the passing of the first Suppression of …

The courtesan, the embodiment of both threat and allure, was a central figure in the moral
discourses of the Muslim 'respectable'classes of colonial North India. Since women are seen …

'Within the borders of these isles shall remain a race one calls Indo. Neither white, nor
brown.'This 'Indo'was part of the Indo-Europeans, a group of mixed indigenous and …