This book seeks to encourage critical thinking at suggesting ways in which notions of culture, neoliberalism, nationalism and queerness in the context of new authoritarianisms are disentangled. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.

Somak Biswas is a Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. His most recent book is Passages through India: Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890-1940 (2023).

Rohit K. Dasgupta is Senior lecturer in cultural industries at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is the author of Digital Queer Cultures in India (2017).

Churnjeet Mahn is Researcher in Literature with expertise in travel writing, race, and sexuality. Her most recent book is Queer Sharing in the Marketized University (2023).

Introduction: Queer politics in times of new authoritarianisms 1. "Attempting to commit offences": Protectionism, surveillance and moral policing of queer women in Sri Lanka 2. "It's illegal but it's not, like, really illegal": Sri Lanka's 'sodomy laws', the politics of equivocation, and queer men's sexual citizenship in The One Who Loves You So 3. Contesting the mainstream transwoman figurations: The question of caste and precarity in Udalaazham 4. Between the sheets: The queer sociality of Bombay zines 5. Between 'Cheeni' and 'Nupi Maanbi': Transgender politics in Manipur at the intersection of nation and Indigeneity 6. Mirrors and murals: Reflections on embodied and state violence 7. Instagram representation of trans and hijra identities in Bangladesh