Preface; 1. A Reading of G. V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr as Queer Autofiction Geetha Ganapathy-Dor; 2. Marriage, Sexual Violence and Indian Masculinity: A Study of Shashi Deshpande's The Dark Holds No Terrors and Anita Nair's Mistress Aparna Sundaram; 3. Beyond the Phallic Axis in Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games Adalinda Gasparini; 4. Reconsidering Gender-Power Hierarchy in a Post/Colonial Society: Masculinities in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide Susmita Roye; 5. Kiran Nagarkar and the Discontents of Masculinity Aysha Viswamohan; 6. Mapping Masculinities in Mumbai: A Reading of Shobha D's Fiction Tripti Karekatti; 7. Tridib's Gastric: The Contradictory Sexual Politics of The Shadow Lines Stephen da Silva; 8. Masculinity vs. Femininity: Perpetuation and Transgression in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things Fewzia Bedjaoui; 9. The Inheritance of Loss: Mapping Postcolonial Indian Masculinities Purnendu Chatterjee; 10. Reciprocal Relationship between Masculinity and Femininity in Thi. Ja. 's Mogamul and Mulk Raj Anand's Gauri N. Chandra; 11. Inferiority, Individual Psychology and Cultural Determinism: An Indian Complex in Ra. Vi. Sastri's A Man of No Consequence Rajeshwar Mittapalli; Selected Bibliography; Contributors