Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789221138095
Aniruddha Dutta
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 allegedly of a Bangladeshi Muslim background, and various community members used the case as an alibi to target hijras of such national and religious origin, sometimes even demanding their expulsion from India. This phenomenon paralleled increasing affiliations between certain sections of trans/hijra communities and the Hindu Right. This article situates this case within the broader rise of queer and trans Hindutva or Hindu nationalism and locates it as indicative of Hindutva’s expansion to its erstwhile ‘elsewheres’: areas outside its traditional strongholds such as eastern India and communities such as hijras who are known for their mixed religious practices and have been historically stigmatised by Hindu society. However, the article also analyses the case to show how hijras and related communities evidence contingently wavering political alliances and complex dynamics of intra-community power and resistance that remain irreducible to typical equations of Hindu right-wing politics. Queer/trans Hindutva might become disrupted by its potential constituents themselves, showing how Hindutva’s ‘elsewheres’ trouble its assimilationist capacities.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789221138094
Rushaan Kumar
The year 2022 marked 75 years since India’s Partition. In 1947, the Partition engendered large-scale dispossession, genocide and sexual violence in the subcontinent. With over one million people killed in communal violence, and several million forced to migrate to the other side of the newly drawn national borders—Hindus and Sikhs to India, Muslims to Pakistan—the Partition is a mass traumatising event marking the inception of the nation-states of India and Pakistan. Feminist historiography of the Partition has extensively documented and theorised the gendered and sexual nature of Partition’s communal violence.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789221138093
Syeda Momina Masood
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789221146522
Shakthi Nataraj, Bob Offer-Westort
Bob and Shakthi are both anthropologists and went to graduate school together. The conversation transcribed here took place a few years after Shakthi had graduated and was working in a department of law. She was considering leaving academia altogether to write and illustrate in other formats. After years away from anthropology, Bob invites her to think about how her disciplinary wanderings ‘elsewhere’ have influenced her work as an ethnographer.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789221138097
Themal I. Ellawala
This is a meditation on love and suffering, pleasure and pain. Despite common sense, public discourse and scholarship narrating these states as diametrically opposed, the lived experience of queer romantic love cannot be disarticulated from the social realities of loss and pain. Suturing love and suffering is the metaphysic of indeterminacy, with the unexpected and uncertain marking romantic encounters and ambitions with precarity and impermanence. Drawing from vignettes gained through an ethnography on queer erotics in Sri Lanka in 2016, I explore how queer love manifests and perishes in the most inexplicable fashion, against the backdrop of structural violence and the vagaries of intersubjective relationalities. A sensitivity to indeterminacy enables an excavation of the elsewheres that inhere to and are conjured by queer romantic love, from the entanglements that live outside of the binaries of heterosexual-homosexual to the utopic futural imaginaries that are made possible at this site. Meanwhile, the suffering engendered by indeterminacy gestures to the precarities of elsewhere, and the transient nature of queer futurity. I engage scholarship on social suffering and romantic love to demonstrate how both corpora of literature are united at the site of the Sri Lankan queer figure, and how centring indeterminacy troubles epistemic projects that seek to know love and the lover with certainty.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789221146514
Akhil Kang
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 relationships the default imagination of an inter-caste love, but also notions of heteronormativity dominate discussions of inter-caste love, relationship and, importantly, inter-caste marriages. In asking ‘queer’ questions about caste, this article analyses what an inter-caste dynamic means for social movements which rally around notions of love and desire or choose to reject them. This article recentres desire and intimacy into caste to imagine queer (im)possibilities of dalit love. In doing so, the article asks: where is the dalit lover? Building upon conversations and interviews with five dalit-queer scholars, intellectuals and activists, as well as provocations offered by them, this article complicates ‘inter-caste love’ itself as a site of power and politics, of social categorisation as well as of critical theorisation.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/01417789221149100
Anjali Arondekar
What are you looking for? I grew up in a directionally challenged world. Bombay, the city of my birth, and Mumbai, the city of my return(s), requires an attention, indeed an attachment, to mis/direction. A casual stranger’s request for walking directions will inevitably summon places lost and found. To arrive at a destination, you must first lose your way, navigate the folds of spaces and histories that rarely recede out of view. That building you seek, one is often told, lives next to another building that was long demolished, even as its loss endures as the only map of the present. As my Bahujan poet Baba used to say, GPS in India is aaplya manachi akanksha / an aspirational techné, an imaginary shorthand that promises Grand Places Soon.
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