Ruth Vanita papers

Ruth Vanita is the author of two novels, Memory of Light and A Slight Angle and two books of poetry, A Play of Light, and The Broken Rainbow. Her non-fiction works include Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination; The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics: Debates on Gender, Varna and Species; Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriages in Modern India (2005; updated 2023); Gender, Sex and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry 1780-1870; Dancing with the Nation: Courtesans in Bombay Cinema; and ‘A Woman More Worth than any Man’: History and Vision in Nine Shakespeare Plays. She co-edited the pathbreaking Same-Sex Love in India, and has translated many works of fiction and poetry, including Chocolate, Ugra’s 1927 collection of stories about homosexuality, and Mahadevi Varma’s My Family. She taught for over 40 years at Delhi University and the University of Montana.