Using a combination of multi-sited ethnography, textual analysis, historical documentation analysis, and memoir writing, the author provides macro and micro perspectives on what it means to be a gay man located in Gay Bombay at a particular point in time. Rachel Dwyer, Professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema, University of London “…Gay Bombay is a path-breaking study of homosexuality in modern Bombay/Mumbai that will be essential reading for students of gender and sexuality.” Jyoit Puri, Director, Graduate Program in Gender/Cultural Studies, Simons College “Gay Bombay is a must-read! Shifting seamlessly through the personal, the Gay Bombay community, the national, and the transnational, the book gives the reader a unique understanding of what it means to be gay and Indian.
Henry Jenkins, Author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide “Parmesh Shahani is an original… This book will inspire and provoke many interested in understanding the intersections between sexuality, globalization, and new media.”
