Ruth Vanita is an Indian academic, activist and author who specialises in British and Indian literary history with a focus on gender and sexuality studies...

Vanita is both a surname and a feminine given name. Notable people with the surname include: Ruth Vanita (born 1955), Indian academic Vicky Vanita (1948–2007)...

those from rural and lower-caste backgrounds. In her book, Love's Rite, Ruth Vanita examines the phenomenon of same-sex weddings, many by Hindu rites, which...

affability the perception of this culture by a public of simple people. Ruth Vanita has called attention to the account in multiple versions of Krittivasi...

seem to be "artificially mixed and assembled into a kind of collage". Ruth Vanita suggests that Ayyappan probably emerged from the fusion of a Dravidian...

1215/10642684-11-4-547. Ruth Vanita, Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Ruth Vanita, 'Naming Love: The...

Council of Social Science Research. Kishwar along with fellow-academic Ruth Vanita co-founded the journal Manushi. Whilst her earlier work were favorably...

Vanitas (Japanese: ヴァニタス, Hepburn: Vanitasu) is the fictional protagonist and title character of the manga series The Case Study of Vanitas, which was...

reform and Indian independence from the British Empire. In the words of Ruth Vanita, "he delighted in iconoclasm; few writers of the time match his unsentimental...

Sentient Publications. ISBN 978-1-59181-060-5. Retrieved 20 July 2012. Ruth Vanita (2005). Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality...

the queer community". orinam. 21 April 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2022. Ruth Vanita; Saleem Kidwai, eds. (2008). Same-Sex Love in India: A Literary History...

Tamil region before the 1940s. According to researchers Eliza Kent, Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai, the legends in the Ayyappa tradition seem to be "artificially...

input and use of bodily fluids such as sweat or menstrual blood, but Ruth Vanita points out that Hindus consider Ganesha's birth auspicious, and that...

fluttering pigeons", as well as its portrayal of the tribal Banjaras. Ruth Vanita, author of the book Dancing with the Nation, claims that Lekin is "a...

sacrament when divorce was introduced.He pointed out that scholars such as Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai have demonstrated that LGBT relationships were not...

— Barani Based on Barani's description, several scholars including Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai among others believe that Alauddin and Kafur were in...

original on July 15, 2015. Retrieved July 30, 2015. Salisbury, Vanita (November 27, 2013). "Dr. Ruth Has Seen the Play About Her Life More Than Fifteen Times"...

examples of the hermaphrodite Shikhandi and Arjuna who became a eunuch. Ruth Vanita argues that ancient India was relatively tolerant and views on it were...

method acting to play real women. Academic writers Madhu Kishwar and Ruth Vanita of the feminist magazine Manushi noted Kapadia for being unafraid to...

New York: Cambridge University. pp. 22, xiii. ISBN 978-0521268837. Ruth Vanita (2005). Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality...

: Hackett Pub. Co. pp. xiv. ISBN 978-1-60384-849-7. OCLC 789148479. Ruth Vanita; Saleem Kidwai (2000). Same-sex love in India : readings from literature...

the temple citing objectionable dressing and conduct as the reason. Ruth Vanita (20 October 2008). Same-Sex Love in India. Penguin Books Limited. pp...

A Secret World, page 25, Psychology Press, 1990, ISBN 0-87630-585-0 Ruth Vanita, Queering India, page 207, Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0-415-92950-4 Sarah...

over the administration to him. Based on Barani's description, scholars Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai believe that Alauddin and Kafur were in a homosexual...

deshmukh and the deshpande in the pargana, were the official watandars. Ruth Vanita (2005). Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality...

and activism. The magazine was founded in 1978 by Madhu Kishwar and Ruth Vanita, two scholars based in New Delhi. It is currently published as a bi-monthly;...

Wife) Shaah aur Maat (Check and Mate). Strangers on the Roof, tr. by Ruth Vanita. 1994, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-024065-9. Ek Inch Muskaan (A Little Smile)...

and ghazals showed allusions and references to beloved male lovers. Ruth Vanita, Saleem Kidwai, p 119, Same-sex love in India: readings from literature...

(Ravindranath Ghosh), Gujarati (Girish Solanki), English (Richard Williams, Ruth Vanita), French (Nicole Balbeer) Mahabhoj (play) translated into Marathi (Arvind...

generated by the dialogue as well as the acting." Academic and activist Ruth Vanita has a different take on the film. She sees it as an interesting attempt...