Print version: Puri, Jyoti. Sexual states : governance and the decriminalization of sodomy in India’s present. Durham : Duke University Press, [2016] Next wave ISBN 9780822360261
Includes bibliographical references and index
Governing sexuality, constituting states -- Engendering social problems, exposing sexuality’s effects on biopolitical states -- State scripts : antisodomy law and the annals of law and law enforcement -- "Half truths" : racializations, habitual criminals, and the police -- Pivoting toward the state : phase one of the struggle against section -- State versus sexuality : decriminalizing and recriminalizing homosexuality in the postliberalized context.