Constructing Native Homosexuality in British India

Decriminalising homosexuality in India.

This paper examines the successful fight against the provision in Section 377 of the Penal Code of India that criminalised private consensual sex between adults of the same sex. This law had led to serious discrimination against people engaging in homosexual acts, who were subjected to frequent beatings and blackmail attempts by police, who used the threat of prosecution against them. NGOs work...

Homosexuality and India

Constructing Facts Bt Cotton Narratives in India

the box of seed was four times the cost of conventional seed. When several rainless days had passed after planting, she went into the field with a hired worker to hand-water each seed to ensure germination-an extraordinary level of attention to a cotton field. Such fields were later used to calculate the " yield advantage " of Bt seed.

Determinants of Primary Schooling in British India

This paper explores the provision of schooling in colonial India when British administrators dictated education policy. Although public and private funds were used to expand and improve the public education system, there were fewer than 3 primary schools for every 10 villages as late as 1911. To explore the impact of the funding system on the provision of schools, I empirically analyze the link...

Public Health and Medicine in British India:

In the years between 1760 and 1860, India was the main focus of European colonial expansion. Under the auspices of the East India Company, the British annexed territory, first, in Bengal and southern India, and later in the north and west of the subcontinent. The north-eastern territories of Assam and Sikkim were also brought under British rule during the nineteenth century, together with what ...