Anjali Arondekar

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496 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 1 May

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Sex Work in Colonial India · 1 May 2026 podcast

Meaning something's erased, something's disappeared, and we got to do a search and rescue mission.

We got to go look for it.

We've got to recuperate it.

We've got to give it value.

And then we have to look for reparation.

And the community that I grew up in, which is why the provocation of colonial India is also complex, because the 19th century and the early 20th century, India is multiply colonized.

So my community comes from Goa, which I know you Brits love to holiday in and ruin.

We need to have another conversation about the raves in Goa led by your people.

But Goa, for example, was a Portuguese colony that existed alongside British India.

And the Portuguese were in India for 450 years.

They didn't leave until 1961.

Wow.

So most people in most South Asians don't recognize this history.

We also had little pockets of India that were colonized by the French like Pondicherry.

So the community I grew up in is from Goa and has always been open.

And the most important part about them is that they kept their own records from the late 19th century.

So the kind of fantasy that sex worker communities just recently have begun to get unionized and have representation is incorrect.

There are, you know, so the book is about that story.

And it's a story about how do we find a way to give visibility to a history of sexuality that is not just about pay force and objection and disappearance, but rather is about joy, intervention, invention, and at the same time, loss.

and disenfranchisement and caste, which is something I don't think we'll have time to talk about.

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