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Understanding R.D. Karve : Brahmacharya, modernity, and the appropriation of global sexual science in Western India, 1927-1953
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Botre, Shrikant and Haynes, Douglas E. (2018) Understanding R.D. Karve : Brahmacharya, modernity, and the appropriation of global sexual science in Western India, 1927-1953. In: Fuechtne, Veronika and Haynes, Douglas E. and Jones, Ryan, (eds.) Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1960. Oakland California: University of California Press, pp. 163-185. ISBN 9780520293373
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Abstract
This chapter examines how global concepts of sexual science were appropriated in western India during the period 1927–1953 by focusing on the case of R. D. Karve, a sexual scientist and birth-control advocate who engaged in an intensely Indian politics of sexuality—that is, the ongoing debates over sexual practices and their relationship to modernity. Karve invoked sexual science to counter nationalist contentions and relied on the iconic European and American figures of sexology to undermine the logic of brahmacharya (sexual self-constraint), a practice believed to be essential to the regeneration of Indian masculinity and the nation. He also argued that the Kamasutra was superior to its ancient counterparts in Europe. The chapter suggests that Karve was highly selective in drawing ideas from European sexual science that served his iconoclastic critique of the place of religion in Indian society.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History D History General and Old World > DS Asia |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
| Publisher: | University of California Press | ||||
| Place of Publication: | Oakland California | ||||
| ISBN: | 9780520293373 | ||||
| Book Title: | Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1960 | ||||
| Editor: | Fuechtne, Veronika and Haynes, Douglas E. and Jones, Ryan | ||||
| Official Date: | 2018 | ||||
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| Page Range: | pp. 163-185 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1525/california/9780520293373.001.0001 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Copyright Holders: | University of California Press |
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