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Chapter 1. Centering the Country Queer Paradox: An Introduction to the Rural Indian Queer (Kaustav Chakraborty).- Part I. The Personal and/as the Provincial.- Chapter 2. Demystifying Queer Taboo: Autoethnography of a Prince from Provincial Gujarat (Manavendra Singh Gohil).- Chapter 3. The Other Story: A Journey of a Queer Boy from a Village in Kosi - Seemanchal (Bihar) (Smit Kumar).- Chapter 4. 4.    Queer and the Category of the Rural: My Personal Experiences in Goa (Kshitij Bisen).- Chapter 5. Rural Punjab amidst Turmoil and Evolution (1980-2023): A Queer Memoir (Yashwinder Singh).- Chapter 6. The Asexuals and the Rurban India (Raj Saxena).- Part II. Cultural/ Cinematic/Literary Representations.- Chapter 7. Representation of Rural Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Lives in Indian English Novels (Kaustav Chakraborty).- Chapter 8. Rural Queer Polymorphism and Postmodern Performative Spectacle: Contextualizing Heterotopia and ‘Other’ Liminal Spaces in Indian Filmic Representations (Saher Bano).- Chapter 9. Wo(men) Un(like) Me! Female Impersonators and Folk Performances in Rural Areas of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab (Nikhilesh Yadav).- Chapter 10. Is there a Joke for the Rural Indian Queer? (Wahida Tasnim).- Chapter 11. Exploring Same-Sex Relationships and Queer Marriages: Insights from Rural Areas of Mizoram and Meghalaya in Northeast India (Anup Shekhar Chakraborty).- Part III. Cartographical Explorations.- Chapter 12. Death, Friendship and Migration of Queer People: Revisiting the Countryside of Keralam (Reshma Bharadwaj).- Chapter 13. Queering the Rural Verdure Scapes of North Bengal: Mapping the Everyday Performative Geography of Gays and Bisexual Men (Victor Banerjee).- Chapter 14. Queer Romance in the Indian Countryside: Rethinking Life and Death in Assam (Anupom Kumar Hazarika).- Chapter 15. In Search of a ‘Place’: Exploring the Untold Narratives of Rural Queer Lives in Odisha (Pranta Pratik Patnaik).- Chapter 16. Emotional Perils and Survivality: Gay and Bisexual Men of Rural Uttarakhand (Himadri Roy).

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      Publisher: Springer
      Publication Date: 7/12/2025
      ISBN13: 9789819657421, 978-9819657421
      ISBN10: 9819657423
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      Book Synopsis

      Chapter 1. Centering the Country Queer Paradox: An Introduction to the Rural Indian Queer (Kaustav Chakraborty).- Part I. The Personal and/as the Provincial.- Chapter 2. Demystifying Queer Taboo: Autoethnography of a Prince from Provincial Gujarat (Manavendra Singh Gohil).- Chapter 3. The Other Story: A Journey of a Queer Boy from a Village in Kosi - Seemanchal (Bihar) (Smit Kumar).- Chapter 4. 4.    Queer and the Category of the Rural: My Personal Experiences in Goa (Kshitij Bisen).- Chapter 5. Rural Punjab amidst Turmoil and Evolution (1980-2023): A Queer Memoir (Yashwinder Singh).- Chapter 6. The Asexuals and the Rurban India (Raj Saxena).- Part II. Cultural/ Cinematic/Literary Representations.- Chapter 7. Representation of Rural Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Lives in Indian English Novels (Kaustav Chakraborty).- Chapter 8. Rural Queer Polymorphism and Postmodern Performative Spectacle: Contextualizing Heterotopia and ‘Other’ Liminal Spaces in Indian Filmic Representations (Saher Bano).- Chapter 9. Wo(men) Un(like) Me! Female Impersonators and Folk Performances in Rural Areas of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab (Nikhilesh Yadav).- Chapter 10. Is there a Joke for the Rural Indian Queer? (Wahida Tasnim).- Chapter 11. Exploring Same-Sex Relationships and Queer Marriages: Insights from Rural Areas of Mizoram and Meghalaya in Northeast India (Anup Shekhar Chakraborty).- Part III. Cartographical Explorations.- Chapter 12. Death, Friendship and Migration of Queer People: Revisiting the Countryside of Keralam (Reshma Bharadwaj).- Chapter 13. Queering the Rural Verdure Scapes of North Bengal: Mapping the Everyday Performative Geography of Gays and Bisexual Men (Victor Banerjee).- Chapter 14. Queer Romance in the Indian Countryside: Rethinking Life and Death in Assam (Anupom Kumar Hazarika).- Chapter 15. In Search of a ‘Place’: Exploring the Untold Narratives of Rural Queer Lives in Odisha (Pranta Pratik Patnaik).- Chapter 16. Emotional Perils and Survivality: Gay and Bisexual Men of Rural Uttarakhand (Himadri Roy).

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