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The first targets of what we could today call 'queerphobic queer cleansing’ were the British themselves, beginning with the Imperial Army. For instance, as Ballhatchet notes, British administrators officially organised an Indian female prostitution apparatus to prevent same-sex acts between British soldiers. They preferred that British men engage in interracial extra-marital heterosex instead of intra-racial homosex.
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‘Hinduism is a religion, Hindutva is an ideology for political mobilization’, Romila Thapar contends. She writes: ‘Hinduism is a mosaic of belief systems, some linked, others not. Hindutva has the characteristics of a sect that reformulates selected beliefs to create in this case a socio-political organisation with an attempt at ideological coherence’.
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Hmm. I am sure it is true that if asked the army command would have found interracial sex preferable to homosexual sex in the army but I wonder of her was the motivation? It was fairly standard practise for imperial armies to make provision for the sex lives of their soldiers. Austria built army brothels ( in two classes so officers and soldiers didn't mix ). Later the British when shipping Indians to east Africa to build railways they sent a contingent of Indian sex workers with them.
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Ooooh, fascinating. I wasn't aware of any of this. But within this context, it might actually have been more aimed at repressing any homosexual tendencies because soon after organizing these prostitution apparatuses, the British administrators passed the Army Act of 1850 which punished British homosex with imprisonment of up to seven years.
ok interesting.also interesting because I have never heard of any effort to put prostitutes on ships, perhaps the thinking in the navy office was different, maybe again India was regarded as a special case, but then technically the army of India was a separate institution from the rest of the british army
Oh yes, separate institution makes sense, but now I wanna know more prostitutes on naval ships! Did the empire provide its own navy with prostitutes? And how were these prostitutes paid, if they were? And what guaranteed their safety on board?
Prerna wrote: "Oh yes, separate institution makes sense, but now I wanna know more prostitutes on naval ships! Did the empire provide its own navy with prostitutes? And how were these prostitutes paid, if they we..."no, I dont think there ever were prostitutes on ships - as the joke goes women and seamen dont mix.
ports (reputably) are well furnished with the business infrastructure to satisfy sailors' desires, but I suppose many smaller garrison towns were not.
Women and seamen, lol. Why hadn't I heard this joke before? It's hilarious.
Prerna wrote: "Women and seamen, lol. Why hadn't I heard this joke before? It's hilarious."maybe because you dont watch 'the simpsons'?
Oh yes, possibly. My knowledge of The Simpsons is strictly limited to memes.
