Abstract Following the April 2014 Supreme Court judgment, several attempts have been
made to define and specify what constitute the Indian transgender identity. My paper looks at …

This book engages with the discourses on human rights as they apply to the transgender or
the hijra community in India, capturing not only their larger struggle for legal rights and …

This article argues that religious mythologies and cultural narratives about the timelessness
of gender diversity in South Asia frame the formation of the transgender subject of rights in …

Indian mainstream feminist discourses, with their fixation on the universalization of Indian
women's experiences, have regarded gender as an unsophisticated category. This …

In this chapter, the author explores the cultural politics of the formation of the Kinnar Akhada
through which new idioms of hijra personhood oriented towards a largely upper-caste …

The anthology Transgender in Indian Context: Rights and Activism is written as a plea for
transgender community in India neglected and deprived for long. The anthology with an …

Transgender folklore and autobiographies generate a distinct category of tradition that
transgresses social narratives and nurtures an alternative awareness becoming a crucial …

The aim of this study is to focus on victimization, discrimination, stigmatization and
marginalization of transgenders in heteronormative Pakistani society. Transgenders are …

Current legislation surrounding hijras and other third-gendered populations in India pivot
around the notion of dignity. Legal redress aspires to give dignity to hijras, a majority of …

In precolonial India, a culture of gender and sexual fluidity flourished in society, attributing
dignified positions to hijras. However, with the arrival of the British colonial rulers the hijra …