Hindu Nation and its Queers: Caste, Islamophobia, and De/coloniality in India

@article{Upadhyay2020HinduNA,
  title={Hindu Nation and its Queers: Caste, Islamophobia, and De/coloniality in India},
  author={Nishant Upadhyay},
  journal={Interventions},
  year={2020},
  volume={22},
  pages={464 - 480}
}
  • N. Upadhyay
  • Published 13 April 2020
  • Sociology
  • Interventions
The 2018 Indian Supreme Court judgement decriminalizing homosexuality has been marked as a “decolonial act.” Section 377, which criminalized homosexuality, was a colonial law introduced by the British in India, which the postcolonial state maintained till 2018. The judgement may be “decolonial” in intent, but there are other simultaneous processes at play which are not so decolonial in praxis; this essay argues these processes are colonialism, brahminical supremacy, and Islamophobia. Caste… 
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