History of Prostitution in India

This book deals with a topic that is perennial both in its occurrence and in the interest that it evokes. The distinction of this work is not only its treatment of a subject of great interest, but in its unique combination of scholarship with the exposition of the erotic. The reader is lead through a mass of well researched and expertly analysed literature which, while it also titillates provides a range of serious information on a topic on which such a scholarly book has never been written. The period covered spans the centuries from the Vedic Age to about 4th Century A.D. the time of the great Savant Vastsyayana.