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THE CONCEPT OF SEXUALITY REFLECTED IN ANCIENT INDIAN CULTURE: A CRITICAL REVIEW

    1 Author(s):  MR VISHAL PANDEY . DR. ANSHUL BAJPAI

Vol -  7, Issue- 4 ,         Page(s) : 164 - 170  (2016 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

Modern India is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. Excavations in the Indus Valley trace civilization there back for at least 5,000 years. India's cultural history includes prehistoric mountain cave paintings in Ajanta, the exquisite beauty of the Taj Mahal in Agra, the rare sensitivity and warm emotions of the erotic Hindu temple sculptures of the 9th-century Chandella rulers, and the Kutab Minar in Delhi. The seeming contradictions of Indian attitudes towards sex can be best explained through the context of history. India played a significant role in the history of sex, from writing the first literature that treated sexual intercourse as a science, to in modern times being the origin of the philosophical focus of new-age groups’ attitudes on sex.

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