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nformative and entertaining, this is a book that gives a true picture of love and relationships as they exist in India today, and have done over the centuries, from the Kama Sutra to the time of Tinder. A collection of twelve keen and insightful essays on love and desire. The book gives historical and cultural perspectives on Indian love (swayamvara, arranged marriages, anddesiromance); the immortal love of Radha and Krishna that transcends theology; the story ofa powerful, sexually desiring and desired courtesan/nagarvadhu.The politics of love is discussed and debated from a variety of angles: from the love jihad campaign against inter-religious marriage, to a critique of the savarna gaze in Indian cultural iconography and its meaning for Dalit women's bodies and inter-caste love, toIndia's legal battle to decriminalize same-sex love, to the subversive threat in single womens self-love. The book includes intriguing and exquisite portrayals of love in literature, from Urdushayariandbhashawriting, to the city fictions of love through Rome, Sydney, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, and back to Delhi, the ancient echoing through the modern. With essays from some of the best writers of our times, including Makarand Paranjpe, Alka Pande, Malashri Lal, Rakshanda Jalil, Mehr Farooqi and Zafar Anjum, this delightful volume certainlysuggests that love is not just a word.

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Anthropology

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Paperback

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Society Social Sciences, Anthropology Book is recommended for Students, Teachers, Graduates, Professionals, and all bibliophiles

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