Abstract

In this afterword, I critically reflect on the contributions to the special section, ‘Translating Sex: Locating Sexology in Indian History, 1880–1960’. Through an engagement with the six articles in the collection, my essay explores the uses and limits of the concept of ‘social reform’ and the analytical import and potential drawbacks to the concept of the ‘vernacular’. Finally, thinking through sexology in modern India across questions of caste, religious polarisation and sexual difference, I argue that the history of sexual science is foundational to the history of modern social theory in and about India.

中文翻译：

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性与纪律违法的历史

抽象的

在此后记中，我将批判性地思考对“翻译性别：1880-1960年印度历史中的性学定位”这一特殊部分的贡献。通过与该系列中的六篇文章互动，我的文章探讨了“社会改革”概念的用途和局限性以及“本土”概念的分析意义和潜在弊端。最后，我通过种姓，宗教两极分化和性别差异等问题对现代印度的性学进行思考，我认为性科学的历史是印度及其周围现代社会理论史的基础。