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 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 …

Nearly her whole childhood, spent in a village in Salem district of Tamil Nadu, was plagued
by this deep and nagging unease of being trapped in the wrong body and by'a growing …

Abstract Laxmi Narayan Tripathi's autobiography Me Hijra, Me Laxmi calls for the reframing
and reconstruction of common queer concepts. It highlights the mismatches between …

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 …

Transgender, an umbrella term used for persons whose gender identity, gender expression
or behaviour does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they are …

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 …

From the existence of human, two genders, male and female were considered as significant
for identity. Apart from these two genders, another gender existed, which is called as …

This paper extensively studies the significance of nirvana in the lives of hijra transwomen at
the personal, social as well as cultural levels. Life writings of hijras from India so far …