Abundance

Anjali Arondekar is Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India, also published by Duke University Press.

• Introduction: Make.Believe.Sexuality's Subjects  11. In the Absence of Reliable Ghosts: Archives  332. A History I Am Not Writing: Sexuality's Exemplarity  633. Itinerant Sex: Geopolitics as Critique  90Coda. I Am Not Your Data. Caste, Sexuality, Protest  112Acknowledgments  129Primary Sources  135Secondary Sources  139Index  163

“By shifting our attention from the recuperation of sexuality as loss to understanding it as a site of abundance, Anjali Arondekar forces a reckoning with the knowledges of subaltern groups in the global South. Abundance will blow a wide hole in South Asian historiography as well as sexuality studies in the United States.” - Indrani Chatterjee, author of (Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages, and Memories of Northeast India) "With her brilliantly conceived Abundance: Sexuality’s History, Professor Anjali Arondekar . . . has reset the bar very high, with one of the best, richest and most important books of Indian historiography ever written. It’s a huge achievement, with even huger implications for how we assess and think about our collective past." - Vivek Menezes (O Heraldo) "It is one of the most challenging and gratifying books to have emerged from queer theory in recent years. Perhaps the title says it all: Abundance: Sexuality’s History hides the place of the West because it has been everywhere and nowhere in the social lives of sexual dissent." - Howard Chiang (Journal of the History of Sexuality)