This introductory volume studies the challenges faced by the transgender community in
India. It traces the history of the representation of the community in Hindu texts to understand …

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 …

The topic of gender and sexuality is convoluted and multifaceted to the extent that it opens
up a wide range of issues whenever it is tried to be domesticated under any unified …

This essay is a set of reflections arising out of prolonged conversations in which we
compared notes on our respective experiences as activist (Raina) and ethnographer …

The increasing recognition of transgender identities as subjects of rights and citizenship is
evident in a series of developmental, state, and legal policies, ranging from transgender …

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 …

Transgender India: Understanding Third Gender Identities and Experiences provides the
first scholarly study of hijras, transmen, and other third gender Indians from the perspective …

This paper discusses the transgender community's fight for justice and developmental rights
since 2014 and the response of the Indian Government toward this assertion. The point of …

The notion of gender identity is the issue of the moment where gender means not only the
biological imperative of one individual, but also the keen perception of self as masculine or …

Transgenders are highly invisible in Kerala. Non acceptance of their very existence, denial
of alternative sexual identities and upkeep of familial pride within their pseudomorality in …