| Sexual life in ancient India : a study in the comparative history of Indian culture (1953) | Johann Jakob Meyer |
| Maharani: Love Adventures of Indian Maharanis and Princesses (1972) | Diwan Jarmani Dass |
| Sex life under Indian rulers (1974) | Rajaram Narayan Saletore |
| The World Of Homosexuals (1977) | Shakuntala Devi |
| Sex in Indian harem life (1978) | Rajaram Narayan Saletore |
| Sexual Designs in Indian Culture (1979) | Akhileshwar Jha |
| Intimate Relations: Exploring Indian Sexuality (1990) | Sudhir Kakar |
| Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India (1990) | Serena Nanda |
| Less Than Gay: A Citizens’ Report on the Status of Homosexuality in India (1991) | Aids Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan |
| Invisible Minority: The Unknown World of the Indian Homosexual (1992) | Arvind Kala |
| Uncertain Liaisons: Sex, Strife & Togetherness In Urban India (1993) | Khushwant Singh |
| History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990 (1993) | Radha Kumar |
| Lotus of Another Color (1993) | Rakesh Ratti |
| Kali’s Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna (1995) | Jeffry J Kripal |
| Hijra/Hijrin: Language and Gender Identity (1995) | Kira Hall |
| Sakhiyani: Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India (1996) | Giti Thadani |
| The Invisibles: A Tale of the Eunuchs of India (1996) | Zia Jaffrey |
| A Question of Silence: The Sexual Economies of Modern India (1998) | Mary E. John |
| Effeminism: The Economy of Colonial Desire (1999) | Revathi Krishnaswamy |
| Love in a Different Climate: Men Who Have Sex with Men in India (1999) | Jeremy Seabrook |
| Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India: Narratives of Gender and Sexuality (1999) | Jyoti Puri |
| Colonial Masculinity: The ‘Manly Englishman’ and the’ Effeminate Bengali’ in the Late Nineteenth Century (2000) | Mrinalini Sinha |
| Abstracts of selected research studies on sexuality and sexual behaviour in India since 1990s (2000) | Khanna, R; Gurbaxani, S; Sengupta, K. |
| Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History (2000) | Ruth Vanita, Saleem Kidwai |
| All You Want Is Money, All You Need Is Love: Sexuality And Romance In Modern India (2000) | Rachel Dwyer |
| Sexuality, Obscenity and Community: Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India (2001) | Charu Gupta |
| Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society (2001) | Ruth Vanita |
| The Lord Who Is Half Woman: Ardhanārīśvara In Indian And Feminist Perspective (2002) | Ellen Goldberg |
| Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia | Sanjay Srivastava |
| Stepping Out: Life and Sexuality in Rural India (2003) | Mrinal Pande |
| Made in India: Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/national Projects (2004) | Suparna Bhaskaran |
| Sexuality In India: Teenager And Teacher (2004) | Kavita Joshi |
| Queer: “Despised Sexuality”, Law, And Social Change (2004) | Arvind Narrain |
| Sexuality in the Time of AIDS: Contemporary Perspectives from Communities in India (2004) | Ravi K. Verma |
| With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India (2005) | Gayatri Reddy |
| Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (2005) | Gayatri Gopinath, J. Jack Halberstam |
| Because I Have A Voice: Queer Politics In India (2005) | Arvind Narrain, Gautam Bhan |
| Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West (2005) | Ruth Vanita |
| Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India (2006) | Maya Sharma |
| Phobic and the Erotic: The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India (2007) | Subhabrata Bhattacharyya and Brinda Bose |
| Passionate Modernity: Sexuality, Class, and Consumption in India (2007) | Sanjay Srivastava |
| Shringaara: A Worthy Aim of Hindu Life: Sexuality in Hinduism (2008) | Bharat Gupt |
| Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India (2008) | Parmesh Shahani |
| Tritiya-Prakriti: People of the Third Sex: Understanding Homosexuality, Transgender Identity and Intersex Conditions Through Hinduism (2008) | Amara Das Wilhelm |
| Whistling in the Dark: Twenty-One Queer Interviews (2009) | R. Raj Rao, Dibyajyoti Sarma |
| Forbidden Sex, Forbidden Texts: New India’s Gay Poets (2009) | Hoshang Merchant |
| Sexual and Gender Representations in Mughal India (2010) | Syed Mubin Zehra |
| Alternative Sexualities in India – The Construction of Queer Culture (2010) | Ana García Arroyo |
| Of Horizons and Beyond: Glimpses of Lesbians, Bisexual Women, and Transpersons’ Lives (2010) | Subhagata Ghosh, Sumita Basu Bandyopadhyay |
| Gender and Human Rights: Narratives on Macro-Micro Realities (2010) | Bishnu C. Barik |
| Gender and Human Rights: Narratives on Macro-Micro Realities (2010) | Barik Bishnu C |
| Law Like Love: Queer Perspectives On Law (2011) | Arvind Narrain, Alok Gupta |
| Our Lives Our Works: Telling Aravani Life Stories (2011) | A. Revathi |
| Queer (2011) | Sunil Gupta |
| Transgender Spirituality: Man into Goddess (2012) | Sakhi Bhava |
| The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India (2012) | Shefali Chandra |
| Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics (2012) | Naisargi Dave |
| Sexuality Studies (Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society) (2013) | Sanjay Srivastava |
| Masculinity and its Challenges in India: Essays on Changing Perceptions (2013) | Rohit K. Dasgupta & K. Moti Gokulsing (eds) |
| Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance: Cultures of Exclusion (2013) | Anna Morcom |
| Gods, Men and Women Gender and Sexuality in Early Indian Art (2013) | Seema Bawa |
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| A People Stronger: The Collectivization of MSM and TG Groups in India (2013) | Suneeta Singh |
| Gay Subcultures and Literatures: The Indian Projections (2014) | Sukhbir Singh |
| Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia (2014) | Leela Fernandes |
| Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion (2014) | Lucinda Ramberg |
| India in Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st Century (2014) | Ira Trivedi |
| Popular Masculine Cultures in India: Critical Essays (2014) | Rohit K. Dasgupta, Steven Baker |
| LGBTQ Identities in Select Modern Indian Literature (2015) | Kuhu Sharma |
| Transgendered People of India: Forsaken Tributaries (2015) | Yu Sakurazawa |
| Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS: Exploring Politics of Women’s Health in India (2015) | Skylab Sahu |
| An Evening Rainbow: Queer Indian Writings from Indian Regional Languages (2015) | Kuhu Sharma Chanana |
| Nothing to Fix: Medicalisation of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (2015) | Arvind Narrain |
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| No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy (2015) | Chaynika Shah, Raj Mariwala, Shalini Mahajan, Smriti Nevatia |
| Gendering the Narrative: Indian English Fiction and Gender Discourse (2015) | Nibedita Mukherjee |
| Rituparno Ghosh: Cinema, Gender and Art (2015) | Sangeeta Datta |
| Legendary Mughal Kings: Homosexuality and Pederasty in South Asia, Pakistan and Bangladesh (2016) | Subhodeep Mukhopadhyay |
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| Delhi: Communities of Belonging (2016) | Sunil Gupta, Charan Singh |
| Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India (2016) | Jyoti Puri |
| The Doubleness of Sexuality: Idioms of Same-Sex Desire in Modern India (2016) | Akhil Katyal |
| Androgyny and Female Impersonation in India: Nari Bhav (2016) | Tutun Mukherjee & Niladri R. Chatterjee |
| Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy – Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science & Finance (2016) | Geeta Patel |
| Harmless Hugs (2016) | Sahil Verma |
| Sexualness (2016) | Akshay Khanna |
| Queer Potli: Memories, Imaginations and Re-imaginations of Urban Queer Spaces in India (2016) | Pawan Dhall |
| Gender, Nation and Popular Film in India: Globalizing Muscular Nationalism (2016) | Sikata Banerjee |
| Islamic Law and Muslim Same-Sex Unions (2016) | Junaid Jahangir, Hussein Abdullatif, |
| Transgender Challenges in India (2016) | S. Nanjundaswamy, M.R. Gangadhar |
| Sexuality and Public Space in India: Reading the Visible (2017) | Carmel Christy |
| Homosexuality in the Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of India (2017) | Yeshwant Naik |
| Gender Socialization and the Making of Gender in the Indian Context (2017) | Sujit Kumar Chattopadhyay |
| New Intimacies, Old Desires: Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times (2017) | Dipika Jain and Oishik Sircar |
| Criminal Love?: Queer Theory, Culture, and Politics in India (2017) | R Raj Rao |
| The Audacity of Pleasure : Sexulities, Literature and Cinema in India (2017) | Brinda Bose |
| Digital Queer Cultures in India: Politics, Intimacies and Belonging (2017) | Rohit K Dasgupta |
| Social Media, Sexuality and Sexual Health Advocacy in Kolkata, India (2017) | Rohit Dasgupta and Pawan Dhall |
| I Am Divine. So Are You: How Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Hinduism Affirm the Dignity of Queer Identities and Sexualities (2017) | Devdutt Pattanaik, Jerry Johnson |
| Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India (2018) | Madhavi Menon |
| Hijras of Kashmir: a marginalized form of personhood (2018) | Dr. Aijaz Ahmad Bund |
| Sexuality in Classical South Asian Buddhism (2017) | Cabezón Ignacio José |
| Growing Up Gay in Urban India: A Critical Psychosocial Perspective (2018) | Ketki Ranade |
| Invisible Men: Inside India’s Transmasculine Network (2018) | Nandini Krishnan |
| Queer Politics in India: Towards Sexual Subaltern Subjects (2018) | Shraddha Chatterjee |
| Gender & Sexuality in Indian Mythology (2018) | Devdutt Pattanaik |
| Queer Politics in India: Towards Sexual Subaltern Subjects (2018) | Shraddha Chatterjee |
| Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora (2018) | Gayatri Gopinath |
| Kinnar: Divine Immortal (2019) | Åke Sander |
| Dissent and Desire (2019) | Sunil Gupta, Charan Singh |
| Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850–1900 (2019) | Jessica Hinchy |
| For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (2019) | Anjali Arondekar |
| Shifting Religious Sacredness to Forced Prostitution. The Deconstruction of Hijras from Without and Within (2019) | Antonia Helesic |
| Marriage of Convenience (2019) | Meghna Mehra |
| Launda Dancer: Anyo Hijrer Bhinna Bhuban (2019) | Niloy Basu |
| Being Janana: Language and Sexuality in Contemporary India (2019) | Ila Nagar |
| Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala (2019) | Navaneetha Mokkil |
| Transgender Welfare and Society (2019) | E. Jayanthy |
| Queer at Work (2019) | Sasmita Palo and Kumar Kunal Jha |
| Gay Icons of India (2019) | Hoshang Merchant, Akshaya K. Rath |
| Queer Studies: Texts, Contexts, Praxis (2019) | Kaustav Bakshi, Rohit K. Dasgupta |
| LGBT Community in India: A Study (2019) | Sanjeev Kumar |
| Transgender in Indian Context: Rights and Activism (2020) | Dipak Giri |
| Working With Transgenders | Manmeet Grover, Vijay Srivastava |
| Gender, Sexuality, Decolonization: South Asia in the World Perspective (2020) | Ahonaa Roy |
| (Hi)Stories of Desire: Sexualities and Culture in Modern India (2020) | Rajeev Kumaramkandath (Editor),
Sanjay Srivastava (Editor) |
| The Great Irony of Section 377: In India (2020) | Louise Roy |
| Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (2020) | Kareem Khubchandani |
| Out of Line and Offline: Queer Mobilizations in ’90s Eastern India (2020) | Pawan Dhall |
| Muscular India: Masculinity, Mobility & the New Middle Class (2020) | Michiel Baas |
| Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought (2020) | Durba Mitra |
| Reel and the Real: Portrayal of Gay Men in Bollywood Films (2020) | Himadri Roy |
| Queer sexualities In Indian Culture (2020) | Dipak Giri |
| Queeristan: LGBTQ Inclusion in the Indian Workplace (2020) | Parmesh Shahani |
| Sex and the Supreme Court: How the Law is Upholding the Dignity of the Indian Citizen (2020) | Saurabh Kirpal |
| Love Is Not a Word: The Culture and Politics of Desire (2020) | Debotri Dhar |
| Queering Tribal Folktales from East and Northeast India (2020) | Kaustav Chakraborty |
| Souls of Someone (2021) | Shino Anila Cherian |
| Transgender in India — Achievers and Survivors (2021) | C K Gariyali and Priyadarshini Rajkumar |
| Sexuality, Abjection and Queer Existence in Contemporary India (2021) | Pushpesh Kumar |
| Love Is Not a Word: The Culture and Politics of Desire | Debotri Dhar |
| Intimate City (2021) | Manjima Bhattacharjya |
| Pink Revolutions: Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India (2021) | Nishant Shahani |
| Rebel Angel: Collected Prose of Hoshang Merchant (2021) | Hoshang Merchant, Akshaya K. Rath |
| EQUALLY: Stories by Friends of the Queer World (2021) | Srini Ramaswamy |
| Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India (2021) | Vaibhav Saria |
| Pha(bu)llus: A Cultural History (2021) | Alka Pande, Amrita Narayanan, Johan Mattelaer |
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