This book covers a range of issues and phenomena around gender-related violence in specific cultural and regional conditions. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it discusses historical and contemporary developments that trigger gender violence and highlight the social conditions, practices, discourses, and cultural experiences.

Preface Part I. Introduction (a) Situating India: Challenges and Propositions Jyoti Atwal (b) Researching Gender-Based Violence in India: Issues, Concepts, Approaches Iris Flessenkämper Part II. Historical Encounters and Cultures of Violence 1. Of Devotional Zeal and Patriarchal Norms: Gender and Violence in the Periya Puräam R. Mahalakshmi 2. Silenced Women, Speaking Men: Locating Gendered Epistemic Violence in 19th-century German Representations of India Felicity Jensz 3. Gendered Behaviour: Religious Norms and Sexual Deviance in the Basel India Mission in the First Half of the 19th Century Judith Becker 4. Bodies in Pain: Violence and Sexually 'Deviant' Male and Transgender Bodies in Colonial India, 1862-1922 Manju Ludwig 5. Sati, Child Wives and Prostitutes: Constituting Violence and Criminality in Colonial India Jyoti Atwal Part III. Minorities and Marginalised Women: Deviant Sexuality and Violence 6. Unregistered Concerns: Violence Against Women with Disabilities in India Nilika Mehrotra and Mahima Nayar 7. Nature of Violence Against Dalit Women Vivek Kumar 8. A Genealogy of Muslim Feminism in Maharashtra: Systems and Violence Deepra Dandekar 9. Hijras: India's Third Gender Between Discrimination and Recognition Renate Syed Part IV. Economies of Violence and Cultural Representations 10. The Nirbhaya Murder Case: Women as Oddity in Public Transport Susmita Dasgupta 11. Gender-Based Violence of Economic Globalisation in Contemporary India: An Intersectional Approach to Gender and Violence Christa Wichterich 12. Fifty Shades of Grey: A Romance That We Cannot Resist? Mary Edwards 13. Gender, Violence and Resistance in Partition Narratives Bodh Prakash 14. On Behalf of Us All? Violence Against Women as a Subject of Indian Film Studies Adelheid Herrmann-Pfandt