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Author(s):	Pandey Bechan Sharma "Ugra"

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0822343827
Pages:	152	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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This volume makes available for the first time in English the work of a significant Indian nationalist author, Pandey Bechan Sharma, better known in India as Ugra, meaning extreme. His book Chocolate, a 1927 collection of eight stories, was the first work of Hindi fiction to focus on male same-sex relations, and its publication sparked Indias first public debates about homosexuality. Many prominent figures, including Gandhi, weighed in on the debates, which lasted into the 1950s. This edition, translated and with an introduction by Ruth Vanita, includes the full text of along with an excerpt from Ugras novel (also published in 1927). In her introduction, Vanita situates Ugra and his writings in relation to Indian nationalist struggles and Hindi literary movements and feuds, and she analyzes the controversies that surrounded . Those outraged by its titillating portrayal of homosexuality labeled the collection obscene. On the other side, although no one explicitly defended homosexuality in public, some justified Ugras work by arguing that it was the artists job to educate through provocation.
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