![]() ![]() ![]() Urdu writer Sa’adat Yar Khan Rangin (1755-1835) described a ritual performed by two women who ate cardamom together to get “married among their female companions”. What is the history of same-sex unions in India? The fourth-century Kamasutra describes casual sex between men but also says that two men who are friends and who trust each other can enter into a union. ![]() In their suicide notes, they often said that they would be married in the next life. Scores of young couples, male and female, since 1980, have committed joint suicide as a form of marriage when their families tried to separate them. Initially, villagers opposed the marriage but later they accepted it. ![]() Wetka Polang, and Melka Nilsa, Kandha tribals in Odisha, got married in 2012. This wedding was attended by 100 people and Jaya’s entire family. Tanuja Chouhan and Jaya Verma got married in 2001 at the Mahamaya Mandir in Bihar. Leela Namdeo and Urmila Srivastava, two policewomen in Madhya Pradesh, got married in 1987, when same-sex marriage was not legal anywhere in the world, and there was no LGBT movement in India. My book lists scores of young, non-English-speaking women from low-income groups who have been married to each other by Hindu rites all over India, at least since 1987. A loving relationship between a man and woman has sanctity and so does a loving relationship between two women. ![]()
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