Sexuality in India has become a vital axis for realising political questions essential to the body, population, public health, governance and surveillance. In the 1990s, under the backdrop of HIV/AIDS, a group of people were identified as MSM, men who have sex with men. These Queer bodies categorised as the high-risk group entered the registers of epidemiology and governmentality. This classification is the point of departure for the book. The book explores the category of risk and analyses it to understand how a sexual subject becomes a political question. Following this political trajectory, the book investigates how the category of risk becomes critical to the Indian state's rationale and policies wherein, through the ambit of health and population, sexuality is managed. Unearthing the sexual politics in South Asia, the book, based on rich empirical evidence, narrates the construction of sexual subjectivity and masculinity. The process of construction occurs in negotiation with the Indian state, bringing forth the dimension of the Indian state as a medico-legal governmentality regime and how MSM takes on the identity of a medicalised subject.

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