Abstract

The three-cornered nature of decolonisation—the decline of European power, the culmination of US hegemony, and the immediate appropriation of the new nation by a post-colonial elite—was foundational to G.S. Ghurye’s detailed riposte to Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. I show how the ‘Father of Indian Sociology’ marshalled statistics, sexology and Sanskrit, along with a static notion of heterosexuality, to caricature whiteness and thereby attack US power. More delicately, however, he directed his critique toward reshaping the identity and even the location of caste. I show how, through an act of translation, Ghurye deployed ‘the’ American orgasm to empower a new ruling class that could project itself as casteless and thus lay claim to a national–colonial mandate.

抽象的

非殖民化的三大本质-欧洲势力下降，美国霸权的高潮以及后殖民精英对新国家的立即占用-是GS Ghurye对金西在人类女性中的性行为的详细回击的基础。我展示了“印度社会学之父”如何将统计，性学和梵文以及静态的异性恋概念编组为讽刺漫画般的白人，从而攻击美国的力量。然而，更微妙的是，他将他的批评指向重塑身份，甚至重塑了种姓的位置。我展示了格里耶（Ghurye）如何通过翻译行动部署“美国”性高潮，以赋予新的统治阶级以新的统治地位，使其可以自称为无姓阶级，从而宣称自己具有民族殖民主义的使命。