Peer Reviewed Articles
Bhattacharya, Arnav. “Managing the “Hypersexual” and “Primitive” Sexual Instinct: Examining the Role of Sexology in the Construction of “Tribal Identity” in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century India.” Archiv Orientální 92, no. 3 (2024): 421–45, https://doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.92.3.421-445.
Bhattacharya, Arnav. "“Literature of the Muck-Heap” versus Scientia Sexualis: Sexology, Obscenity, and Censorship in Early to Mid-Twentieth-Century India." Journal of the History of Sexuality 33, no. 1 (2024): 56-78. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916974.
Bhattacharya, Arnav. “Purging the Pornographic, Disciplining the Sexual, and Edifying the Public: Pornography, Sex Education and Class in Early to Mid-Twentieth Century Colonial Bengal.” Porn Studies 9, no. 3 (July 3, 2022): 273–91. https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2021.1969992.
Edited Volumes
Bhattacharya, Arnav. The Non-Western Foundation of “Scientia Sexualis”: Interrogating the Global Networks of Victorian Sexual Science. In A Handbook to Nineteenth Century Literature and Science edited by Pamela Gilbert (Palgrave, Forthcoming).
Bhattacharya, Arnav. “The not so “Noble Savage”: Exploring the Intersection of Sexual Deviance and Criminality in Late 19th and Early 20th Century India.” In Interrogating Deviance and ‘Crime’ in Colonial and Postcolonial India edited by Peter Andersen, Sanjukta Das Gupta, and Amit Prakash. (Peter Lang Publishers)
Bhattacharya, Arnav. The Global History of Sexual Medicine. In The Cambridge History of Medicine: Volume 5 (Nineteenth Century Medicine. C. 1820-1920) (Forthcoming)
Book Reviews
Review of Gowri Vijayakumar’s At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021). H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews. June 2022. URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57726
Review of Steven Epstein’s The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,2022) ISIS, Volume 114, Number 1, March 2023, 25-26.
URL: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/723381