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Arondekar, Anjali

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“…71 Venus in India, for example, not only explores the "contradictory erotics of Imperial rule," but turns into "an ethnographic journey" resembling the Cannibals' anthropological writings when its hero, who incessantly monitors his own desires, finds himself unable to have sex with native women. 72 Burton's translation of the Nights further supports the theory that the Cannibals considered their pornographic writing part of their scholarly project, showing how, like Ashbee and Clowes, they perceived fiction as a "mirror of reality." Throughout, the translator emphasizes the fictional Nights' value as a work "of the highest anthropological and ethnological interest."…”

Section: Writing the Secret Museummentioning

confidence: 81%

Reading, Writing, and Publishing an Obscene Canon: The Archival Logic of the Secret Museum, c. 1860–c. 1900

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2017

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My conjectures as to the character of the contents of-'s cabinet were correct! For, my dear, I have found, secured, and appropriated that key. The long sought for, long talked of, is mine at last! And the cabinet has been explored! Oh, it is fearful. I didn't dream there were such books in the world.. .. You haven't any idea how perfectly awful they are. Why, it's enough to make the very paper they're on blush.. .. What would the handsome and unsuspecting-say, if only he knew of a certain young lady's discoveries, and the liberties taken with his treasures? He is still abroad, perhaps getting new rarities for his collection. 1

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Section: Writing the Secret Museummentioning

confidence: 81%

Reading, Writing, and Publishing an Obscene Canon: The Archival Logic of the Secret Museum, c. 1860–c. 1900

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2017

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“…97 Anjali Arondekar has argued that military officials sometimes used the titillating scandal of sex between men to cover up instances of imperial mismanagement or atrocities of governance. 98 Skating the boundaries between homosocial and homosexual, Yeats-Brown's early years in India ranged from dressing as a woman to possibly imitating the ostensibly safe sexual release of the scarce British women, both of which were well entrenched in British military and public school life. Yet being an Indian cavalry officer placed him more deeply in contact with sexual anxieties of British rule in South Asia.…”

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Fascist Yogis: Martial Bodies and Imperial Impotence

Imy¹

2016

J. Br. Stud.

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Between the First and Second World Wars, two retired British military officers, Francis Yeats-Brown and J. F. C. Fuller, embraced fascism and yoga. In their publications and lecture tours, they used their past experiences as soldiers in India to encourage strength, discipline, and virility. While Fuller believed that yoga could teach men to be strong and powerful leaders, Yeats-Brown celebrated yoga as a part of “Aryan” racial inheritance. This article examines both Fuller's and Yeats-Brown's published accounts and archival trails in order to understand the development of global masculinities within individual British lives. It reveals that their engagement with yoga was a defensive effort to appropriate the “regeneration” of martial masculinity encouraged by Indian nationalists. Claiming yoga for “great men” and “Aryan” audiences became a way to rewrite their own histories of service to the British Empire. They erased the weakness and fragility of imperial life, and replaced it with idealized bodies that were strong, disciplined, and virile. In so doing, they attempted to save imperial soldiers from political and cultural irrelevance. This reimagining used imperial hierarchies of gender and racial difference to encourage a “universal” model of martial masculinity that could restore the power of the British Empire.

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“…69 While Burton suggested that non-Muslim soldiers could become susceptible to these temptations, he maintained that Hindu men were more trustworthy, owing to their holding 'pederasty in abhorrence'. 70 Army recruiting manuals in the twentieth century similarly suggested that 'It cannot be disputed that the town Musalman is not a suitable man for the Army, being usually the possessor of all sorts of vices'. 71 Major A. E. Barstow hinted in 1928 that violent crimes among Jat Sikhs were uncommon but crop up from 'conjugal infidelity' and 'illicit amours and guilty intrigues', which have increased owing to 'The paucity of women among Jats and Sikhs'.…”

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Queering the Martial Races: Masculinity, Sex and Circumcision in the Twentieth-Century British Indian Army

Imy¹

2015

Gender & History

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Cited by 392 publications

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Reading, Writing, and Publishing an Obscene Canon: The Archival Logic of the Secret Museum, c. 1860–c. 1900

Reading, Writing, and Publishing an Obscene Canon: The Archival Logic of the Secret Museum, c. 1860–c. 1900

Fascist Yogis: Martial Bodies and Imperial Impotence

Queering the Martial Races: Masculinity, Sex and Circumcision in the Twentieth-Century British Indian Army

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