Governing gender and sexuality in colonial India : the Hijra, c.1850-1900 / Jessica Hinchy.
In 1865, the British rulers of north India resolved to bring about the gradual 'extinction' of transgender Hijras. This book, the first in-depth history of the Hijra community, illuminates the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality and the production of colonial knowl...
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2019.
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