Sodomy in India: Sex crime or human right?

IDS Bulletin

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 58-63

  Baudh, Sumit ^a  

^a AMAN Trust

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; CULTURAL IDENTITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33845900688     PISSN: 02655012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-5436.2006.tb00303.x     Document Type: Article

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