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Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The
Hijra,
c. 1850–1900
Author
Jessica Hinchy
Content
xviii + 306 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Description
Focuses on how disapproval from British colonialists and middle-class Indians led to criminalization of behaviors of the transgender hijra.
Main subject
History
Law
Politics
Sexuality
ISBN
9781108492553 (cloth); 9781108716888 (pap.); 9781108657181 (ebook)
Citation
Hinchy, Jessica.
Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The
Hijra,
c. 1850–1900.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Sylvia. Accessed June 16, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL2222.
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09-09-2024
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American Historical Review
126.3 (2021): 1206–11
Journal of Social History
54.3 (2021): 982–84
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