“The photographs of temple carvings above, were taken in the 1930's by Raymond Burnier, a photographer, and lover of Alain Danielou. Alain was a French artist, musician, writer and student of Indian culture. He published books on Yoga and the Kama Sutras in the 30's and 40's. According to this site, these photographs depict a tradition of homoerotic sacred art now mostly effaced from Indian temples as a result of the systematic campaigns of “sexual cleansing” of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, both of whom attempted to re-write the historical record by erasing all traces of the Indian homoerotic tradition.”
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