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100 _aShahani, Parmesh
245 0 _aGay bombay :
_bglobalization, love and (be)longing in contemporary India
260 _aNew Delhi
260 _bSage
260 _c2008
300 _a349p.
365 _b395
365 _dRS
520 _aThis was the first ethnography of gay life in contemporary India. It talked about the early age of the internet in the country and the creation of online-offline gay communities from the mid-1990s to the mid 2000s. The anniversary edition has chapters from leading global scholars about the continuing importance of the book, as well as an updated preface from the author. It has an interview as an afterword that talks about the path ahead for queer rights in India, in the context of the recent Supreme Court judgement decriminalizing homosexuality.
650 _aGays-India
942 _cB
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