This thesis explores the construction and use of the hijra figure in fictional literature. It argues
that hijras are utilised as both symbols of deviance and central points around which wider …

Abstract Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (1860), often perceived as a hanger-on of the
British Raj, forbids 'carnal intercourse against the order of nature.'The law is commonly seen …

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 …

The late twentieth-century economic liberalization that transformed India from a License Raj
to a so-called NGO Raj paralleled a burgeoning interest in Indian hijra communities, aided …

In Arundhati Roy's novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Ustad Kulsoom Bi frequently
takes the new initiates of her hijra household to a Sound and Light show at the historic Red …

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

The aim of this paper is to raise awareness of the humanity of hijras through their
autobiographies. The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story (2015) by A. Revathi will shed light …

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 …

Hijra is a distinctive South Asia known for their gender and sexual difference and associated
with their transgender and intersex identities. Otherwise known as transwomen, they are …

Abstract Hijras (Eunuchs) in India have practically no respectable public identity. They have
no acceptance and no protection from prejudice and abuse. The discrimination against them …