Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India The Hijra c1850 1900 1st Edition by Jessica Hinchy ISBN 110849255X 9781108754248

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ISBN 10: 110849255X 
ISBN 13: 9781108754248
Author: 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 knowledge. From the 1850s, colonial officials and middle class Indians increasingly expressed moral outrage at Hijras’ feminine gender expression, sexuality, bodies and public performances. To the British, Hijras were an ungovernable population that posed a danger to colonial rule. In 1871, the colonial government passed a law that criminalised Hijras, with the explicit aim of causing Hijras’ ‘extermination’. But Hijras evaded police, kept on the move, broke the law and kept their cultural traditions alive. Based on extensive archival work in India and the UK, Jessica Hinchy argues that Hijras were criminalised not simply because of imported British norms, but due to a complex set of local factors, including elite Indian attitudes.

Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India The Hijra c1850 1900 1st Table of contents:

Part 1 – Solving the ‘Eunuch Problem’

Part 2 – Multiple Narratives of Hijra-hood

Part 3 – Surviving Criminalisation and Elimination

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