In this project, I ask if avant-garde literary experimentations can enable an alternative imaginary for intimate lives. Through a close reading of experimental Bengali literature composed in 1960s post-independence India, Intimate Revolutions seeks to foreground the gender politics of countercultural innovations. I establish, using a wide and disparate set of novels and poems by Bengali men and women of the time, that literature was the site upon which revolutionary imaginations of gender and sexuality were first forged. Even though these texts belong to the era of the “global 60s”—usually associated with large-scale sociopolitical revolutions—these inventive works of prose and poetry turn their gaze away from the public towards the intimate. Bengali readers of the 1960s were initiated to unprecedented norms of individual identity and radical forms of intimacy through postcolonial modernist literature that were inspired by local as well as international energies and templates. I show how this eclectic corpus of literature recorded and represented concurrent transformations in discourses about gender and sexuality. By way of conclusion, I return to the shock and frisson generated by these audacious texts. I evaluate their transgressive potential in the long history of Bengali literary enunciations of intimate lives; I marvel at the intimate revolutions that these global 60s texts facilitate.