Ruth Vanita - Major Publications

Major Publications

• Co-edited with Madhu Kishwar, "In Search of Answers: Indian Women’s Voices from Manushi" (London: Zed Books, 1984, revised edition Horizon Books, Delhi, 1991).
• Vanita, Ruth, A Play of Light: Selected Poems (Penguin India, 1994)
• Vanita, Ruth, Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)
• Vanita, Ruth and Saleem Kidwai (eds.) (2000) Same-Sex love in India: Readings from Literature and History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. New Delhi: Macmillan. Updated edition forthcoming from Penguin India, 2008. ISBN 0-312-22169-X
• Vanita, Ruth. Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society (New York: Routledge, 2002)
• Vanita, Ruth, Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan; New Delhi: Penguin India, 2005)
• Vanita, Ruth (2005). Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Culture. New Delhi: Yoda Press. ISBN 978-81-902272-5-4. OCLC 70008421.

Translations:

• Yadav, Rajendra. Strangers on the Roof, translated by Ruth Vanita, Penguin India, 1994
• Detha, Vijay Dan. Dilemma and Other Stories, translated by Ruth Vanita, Manushi Prakashan, 1997
• Pandey Bechan Sharma "Ugra," Chocolate and Other Stories on Male-Male Desire, translated with an introduction by Ruth Vanita (New Delhi:Oxford University Press, 2006).
• The Great Feast (English translation of Mannu Bhandari’s Hindi novel, Mahabhoj) (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2003).
• Twenty Short Stories by Premchand (forthcoming Penguin India)
• About Me (Apni Khabar) - Autobiography of Pande Bechan Sharma Ugra (forthcoming Penguin India)