Talk:History of sex in India

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Whoa, this page consists of a pile of words. Some sense has to be made out of this... Could the author of this page change everything into meaningful sentences? Thanks, AndyZ 23:21, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Andy, that is because it is a stub ;-) Vastu
And, I am sure that it shall become a great page. I would love to actively work on this page. --Bhadani 13:12, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Thankyou for your kind comments Bhadani, while I helped create the History of India page, and added to a few others, this is the first full article that I have written from stub to finish. It is my hope that it will go some way towards eleiviating some of the ignorance surrounding such an important matter in Indian society, and help to explain the treatment of sex in India to non-Indians. Vastu 14:00, 22 Jan 2006 (GMT)
Sure. Some of the pictures may be removed and bundled up in Wikemedia commons, for example as has been done in the page Indian painting. This will perhaps give the reader more time to concentrated on the words than the see the "attractive pictures". --Bhadani 14:05, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
I find that pictures break up text in a nice way though - most people huff and puff when they see a long article, but when there is some pictures, they seem more drawn to the text too, so I hope they arnt removed by anyone. Vastu

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[edit] Pics for improvment

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[edit] No reference

This article needs a major revision. Amir85 14:14, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

It only really needs references dosent it? Vastu 11:33, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Also a decent clean-up, information provided doesn't seem to verifiable at all. Amir85 14:03, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV!

"Delhi Sultanate and Muslim Rule Era

After the foundation of the Delhi Sultanates and the set up of several muslim states in the 14th-15th centuries in India, Islamic customs of the complete/partial covering up of women tarnished the freedom of sexuality that once existed in India. It is not to say that the "Purdah" system became prevalent or was enforced in this period, because there were several Hindu customs which had the same principals - such as the 'ghunghat' of the marwaris of Rajputana. However, it came to be followed more like a staunch rule than a tradition, and ofcourse it must be remembered that this was not an indigenous custom, being in fact imported from the desert lands of Arabia (which required covering of women for totally different and non-religious reasons). There has been strong evidence that Islamic customs of 'burkha' and the likes were not forced among the majority of the then liberal Hindu population.

The Mughal rule saw an interlude of liberalism and forward thinking which was brought to an end in the reign of Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir, who single-handedly usurped the power of the Ulema and imposed his own tyrannical and puritan version of Islam on a scientific, forward looking people. Non-muslims in the empire were encouraged to follow the muslim customs by way of new laws and other tactics, for instance, the reintroduction of the hated "jiziya" tax (which non Muslims had to pay). The Non-fundamentalist Muslim way of 'blasphemous' liberalism including Sufiism and communities like the Shias, were ridiculed and even punished. These tactics led to mass conversions of Non-Muslims during the rule of the tyrant, and Islamic Sharia Law was almost introduced for all Mughal subjects (rather than just Muslims) before Aurangzeb's death, thus resulting in nearly total loss of the liberal way of life that once existed."

The entire paragraph suffers from mad NPOV - words like blasphemous need to be checked.... dude.--64.230.15.117 (talk) 00:07, 24 February 2008 (UTC) --64.230.15.117 (talk) 00:07, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reinsertion, references

I'm reinserting some details deleted by an anon. I'd like to see a lot more references, especially in the modern section. Hornplease 08:44, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

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