Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part I Introduction: Ancient Indian Materials; Vyasa's Mahabharata: "Sikhandin's Sex Change" (Sanskrit); Manikantha Jataka (Pali); Vishnu Sharma's Panchatantra (Sanskrit); Vatsyayana's Kamasutra (Sanskrit); Part II Vatsyayana's Kamasutra (Sanskrit); Bhagvata Purana: The Embrace of Shiva and Vishnu (Sanskrit); Skanda Pur ana: Sumedha and Somavan (Sanskrit); Shiva Purana: The Birth of Kartikeya (Sanskrit); Shiva Purana: The Birth of Ganesha (Sanskrit) Somadeva Bhatta's Kathasaritsagara: Kalingasena and Somaprabha (Sanskrit)Padma Purana: Arjuni (Sanskrit); Ayyappa and Vavar: Celibate Friends; Krittivasa Ramayana: The Birth of Bhagiratha (Bengali); Jagannath Das (Oriya); Part III Introduction: Medieval Materials in the Perso-Urdu Tradition; Arnir Khusro (Persian and Hindvi); Ziauddin Barani: The Khaljis in Love (Persian); The Mirror of Secrets: "Akhi" Jamshed Rajgiri (Persian); Baburnama (Turkish); Mutribi" Samarqandi: The Fair and the Dark Boys (Persian) Haqiqat al-Fuqara: Poetic Biography of "Madho Lal" Hussayn (Persian), with Hussayn's poems (Punjabi)Sarmad (Persian); Muhammad Akram "Ghanimat" Kanjohi: Love's Sorcery (Persian); Najmuddin Shah Mubarak "Abru": Advice to a Beloved (Urdu); Siraj Aurangabadi: The Garden of Delusion (Urdu); Mir Abdul Hai "Taban": The Lover Who Looked like a Beloved (Urdu); Dargah Quli Khan: Portrait of a City (Persian); Mir Taqi "Mir": Autobiography and Poems (Persian and Urdu); Part IV Introduction: Modern Indian Materials; Nazir Akbarabadi (Urdu); Rekhti Poetry: Love between Women (Urdu) Shri Ramakrishna Paramahansa (Bengali)Bankim Chandra Chatterjee: Indira (Bengali); The Kamasutra in the Twentieth Century; Gopabandhu Das: Poems Written in Prison (Oriya); The New Homophobia: Ugra's Chocolate (Hindi); M.K. Gandhi: Reply to a Query (English); Arnrita Sher-Gil: Letters (English); Hakim Muhammad Yusuf Hasan: Do Shiza (Urdu); Firaq" Gorakhpuri: Poet vs. "Critic" (Urdu); Sharada: "Farewell" (Hindi); Suryakant Tripathi "Nirala": Kulli Bhaat (Hindi); Josh Malihabadi: "There Will Never Be Another Like You" (Urdu); Ismat Chughtai: "Tehri Lakeer" (Urdu) Rajendra Yadav: "Waiting" (Hindi)Bhupen Khakhar: A Story (Gujarati); Kishori Charan Das: "Sarama's Romance" (Oriya); Crime of Passion (English); Shobhana Siddique: "Full to the Brim" (Hindi); V T. Nandakumar: Two Girls (Malayalam); Vijay Dan Detha: "A Double Life" (Rajasthani); Vikram Seth: Poems (English); Nirmala Deshpande: "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (Marathi); Vijay Tendulkar: Mitra's Story (Marathi); Sunil Gangopadhyay: Those Days (Bengali); H.S. Shivaprakash: Shakespeare Dreamship (Kannada); Inez Vere Dullas: Poems (English); Hoshang Merchant: Poems for Vivan (English)