''Venus in India, or Love adventures in Hindustan'' is a

pornographic novel Erotic literature comprises fictional and factual stories and accounts of eros (passionate, romantic or sexual relationships) intended to arouse similar feelings in readers. This contrasts erotica, which focuses more specifically on sexual feelin ...

by the pseudonymous "Charles Devereaux" (variously spelled in the different editions) published by Auguste Brancart in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

in 1889. It purports to be the autobiography of a British Army officer serving on the North West Frontier of India, describing his erotic adventures with Lizzie Wilson and the three daughters of Colonel Selwyn. His wife Louie remains in England. He sometimes refers to

Théophile Gautier Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ( , ; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and rem ...

's ''Mademoiselle de Maupin'' during the narrative which is set during the third Afghan War. It is divided into two volumes and the content of a third volume is occasionally referred to in the text but this was never published.

References

* Hyam, Ronald (1990) ''Empire and Sexuality: the British experience'' (Studies in Imperialism), Manchester University Press ; p. 135 * Jarman, Francis (2005) ''White Skin, Dark Skin, Power, Dream: collected essays on literature and culture'' (I. O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy and Criticism of Literature; vol. 27.) Holicong, Pa.: Borgo Press , p. 25 * İrvin Cemil Schick (1999) ''The Erotic Margin: sexuality and spatiality in alteritist discourse''. London: Verso ; pp. 117–18

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