![]() ![]() ![]() I urge you to read and keep this book carefully for it offers you a useful foundation to build a happier life. Be enlightened and be educated about a great tradition that presents itself as an equal contributor of modern civilization. ![]() Vanita offers a marvelously global perspective on our own 'gay marriage' debates-one characterized by profound historical understanding, impeccable scholarship, and a rare and delightful precision of feeling."-Terry Castle, editor of "The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall""" "It's here that contemporary India comes across as a heterogeneous, pluralistic and perfect setting where the modern gay and lesbian identity is being forged in the furnace of the turmoil of industrial India. ![]() ""Love's Rite," Ruth Vanita's absorbing new book on same-sex love and marriage and the Indian religious tradition, shows just how deeply rooted the idea of homosexuality really is in the Hindu tradition and how subtly and imaginatively Indian attitudes toward same-sex unions have evolved over the centuries, even as new social, cultural, and affective realities have come into being. ![]()
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