The Hijra of India

This episode is about the Hijra of India and the differing gender norms of India versus Western Europe.Also, special guest, my cat BellaBibliographyArondekar, Anjali. For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2009.Cohen, Lawrence. “The Pleasures of Castration: The Postoperative Status of Hijras, Jankhas, and Academics.” Sexual Nature/Sexual Culture: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society (1995): 276-305.Dutta, Aniruddha. “An Epistemology of Collusion: Hijras, Kothis and the Historical (Dis) Continuity of Gender/Sexual Identities in Eastern India.” In Gender History Across Epistemologies, edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Mary Jo Maynes, 305-329. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2013.Hinchy, Jessica. Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra 1850-1900. Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press, 2019.Hinchy, Jessica. “Obscenity, Moral Contagion and Masculinity: Hijras in Public Space in Colonial North India.” Asian Studies Review 38 (2014): 274-294.Hinchy, Jessica. “The Sexual Politics of Imperial Expansion: Eunuchs and Indirect Colonial Rule in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North India.” In Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges edited by Stephan Miescher, Michele Mitchell, and Naoko Shibusawa, 23-48. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2015.Nanda, Serena. “Life on the Margins: A Hijra’s Story.” In Everyday Life in South Asia edited by Diane Mines and Sarah Lamb, 124-131. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2010.Nanda, Serena. Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1990.Preston, Laurence W. “A Right to Exist: Eunuchs and the State in Nineteenth-Century India.” Modern Asian Studies vol. 21 no. 2 (1987): 371-387.Pushyamitra, M. “Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and Fundamental Rights: A Study.” International Journal of Law Management & Humanities 5 (2022): 1708-1716.Sweet, Michael J. and Leonard Zwilling. “The First Medicalization: The Taxonomy and Etiology of Queerness in Classical Indian Medicine.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 3, no. 4 (1993): 590-607.