#  Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought 

 



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 **February 24, 2020** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

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##  **Speaker: Durba Mitra, Harvard University**

 Durba Mitra  
Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality  
Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute  
Harvard University  
   
On her new book  
[Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought](https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691196343/indian-sex-life)  
   
In conversation with   
[Lisa Lowe](https://americanstudies.yale.edu/people/lisa-lowe)  
Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies  
Yale University  
   
and   
   
[Sharon Marcus](https://english.columbia.edu/content/sharon-marcus)  
Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature  
Columbia University

 During the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectuals—philologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social critics—deployed ideas about sexuality to understand modern Indian society. In Indian Sex Life, Durba Mitra shows how deviant female sexuality, particularly the concept of the prostitute, became foundational to this knowledge project and became the primary way to think and write about Indian society.



 

 



 

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