Queer Fashion and Masculinities in India

This visually rich field-based study is brought to vivid life through more than 40 original photographs, offering rare insight into contemporary queer dress practices and masculinities in India and developing two innovative methodologies for studying queer fashion and identity. Paying particular attention to queer subjectivities and masculinities - including kothi and hijra communities, masculine-presenting panthi men, and emergent elite 'neo-royal' queer identities - Janusauskas traces how different modes of queer embodiment challenge and rework dominant cultural expectations.The book situates these practices within the wider socio-political landscape of India, showing how caste, class, gender norms, nationalism, and neoliberal fashion media intersect to enable and constrain queer expression. At its core is a compelling reconceptualization of fashion not simply as an object of study but as an embodied practice and a research method in its own right.Through collaborative photographic p