This thesis explores the construction and use of the hijra figure in fictional literature. It argues that hijras are utilised as both symbols of deviance and central points around which wider anti-sociality circulates. In order to contextualise these characters and offer a deepe…
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This dissertation analyzes the linguistic strategies of Hindi-speaking hijras in Banaras, India. Discussed variously in anthropological literature as "transvestites," "eunuchs," "hermaphrodites," and even "an institutionalized third gender role," most of India's hijras were rais…
In general, my research examines how groups of Muslims interpret and embody religious and environmental beliefs and practices, create religious identities, craft communities, and negotiate the boundaries and points of connection between their communities and larger Muslim, cultu…