AP/HIST 4795 6.00

Gender and Sexuality in Modern India

This course examines the histories of gender and sexuality in India from the late19th century to the present, with a particular focus on how wider social, political and economic developments have impacted and in turn, been shaped by the changing dynamics of gender. It traces transformations in gender norms and experiences and concurrent shifts in intimate life and sexual politics in colonial and postcolonial India.