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Beyond desire: sexuality in modern Tamil literature

tending to be diachronically shaped by aspects of human practice. At another level, the ‘public’ is used to refer to people, i.e. masses, those gathered around the discoursing saints. Here, the spatial dimension becomes merely a connotation. And further, the book uses the idea of the Habermasian ‘public sphere’ in that even the spatial connotation of the ‘public’ is underplayed so as to emphasize the discursive and deliberative aspect of the public wherein individuals actually enter into a rational debate about issues that concern public affairs in general. In addition, the author also professes interest in the public culture of medieval Maharashtra. What would have been useful here would be to characterize the nuanced senses in which the idea of the public, in its multiple modes, was marked by the registers of the historical time to which it belonged. Although the book lacks circumspection, it does make some pioneering efforts in granting precedence to certain frequently neglected aspects of premodern social life, namely caste, class and gender.