For the Record On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India First Edition by Anjali Arondekar ISBN 9780822345336 0822345331

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ISBN 10:0822345331

ISBN 13: 9780822345336

Author: Anjali Arondekar

Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a return? And conversely, what kind of “archive” does such a recuperative hermeneutics produce? Rather than render sexuality’s relationship to the colonial archive through the preferred lens of historical invisibility (which would presume that there is something about sexuality that is lost or silent and needs to “come out”), Arondekar engages sexuality’s recursive traces within the colonial archive against and through our very desire for access.
The logic and the interpretive resources of For the Record arise out of two entangled and minoritized historiographies: one in South Asian studies and the other in queer/sexuality studies. Focusing on late colonial India, Arondekar examines the spectacularization of sexuality in anthropology, law, literature, and pornography from 1843 until 1920. By turning to materials and/or locations that are familiar to most scholars of queer and subaltern studies, Arondekar considers sexuality at the center of the colonial archive rather than at its margins. Each chapter addresses a form of archival loss, troped either in a language of disappearance or paucity, simulacrum or detritus: from Richard Burton’s missing report on male brothels in Karáchi (1845) to a failed sodomy prosecution in Northern India, Queen Empress v. Khairati (1884), and from the ubiquitous India-rubber dildos found in colonial pornography of the mid-to-late nineteenth century to the archival detritus of Kipling’s stories about the Indian Mutiny of 1857.

Table of contents: 

Introduction

Without A Trace

One

A Secret Report: Richard Burton’s Colonial Anthropology

Two

Subject to Sodomy: The Case of Colonial India

Three

Archival Attachments: The Story of an India-Rubber Dildo

Four

In the Wake of 1857: Rudyard Kipling’s Mutiny Papers

Coda

Passing Returns

Bibliography

Index

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