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Homosexuality in India
Homosexuality in India has existed in traditional native philosophies of the nation, and legal rights continue to be advanced in both mainstream and regional politics. Homosexual cohabitation is legally permitted in India, including some legal protections and rights. Various artworks and literary works attest to the presence of homosexuality in ancient India. There were no known strict legal restrictions against homosexuality up until Islamic rule and European colonialism. Some scholars believe that discrimination against homosexuality was largely imported through Islam and Christian-derived morality during European colonialism, starting in the second millennium and ultimately culminating in the 17th-century Fatawa-e-Alamgiri of the Mughal Empire and the 19th-century Indian Penal Code of the British Empire. The modern criminalization of homosexuality was established by the Indian Penal Code, imposing Victorian morality on Indian subjects under the British Raj in 1860. After a nine-year...
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