Bodies in Pain Gewalt an sexuell „devianten” männlichen und Transgender-Körpern im kolonialen Indien.

Through analysing various instances when and how the colonial state intervened in the lives of sexually "deviant" male colonial subjects, this article interrogates the historical entanglement of male and transgender sexual "deviance" with state violence. To explore the ambivalent nature of the colonial constellation and its manifold outcomes, the article first shows how colonial legal regimes created a double standard in their prosecution of non-consensual sexual relationships by negating the possibility of homosexual rape while affi rming the occurrence of heterosexual rape. Secondly, the article broaches the issue of the inclusion of so-called "eunuchs" into the 1871 Criminal Tribes Act and the resulting policing and medical regime that violently disrupted the lives of the individuals concerned. Finally, the article gives insight into the world of colonial prisons and penal settlements, in which colonial theories about the violent inclinations of sexually "deviant" men were formed while the colonial state itself experimented with modes of punishment, including forms that mimicked sexual violence and left the traces of violence on the bodies of the alleged "deviants". These examples illustrate how, on the one hand, colonial discourses about male sexual "deviance" depended heavily on the terminology of violence, and, on the other hand, created violent disruptions for the people thus labelled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]