Hijras and South Asian historiography

• Main Author: Hinchy, Jessica
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::History; Hijras; South Asian Historiography
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170527
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Since the 1990s, scholars of South Asia have framed the hijra community in a variety of ways, for instance, as a third gender, a transgender group, and an identity made through more than gender difference. Both interdisciplinary and historical accounts have debated the relationship between “hijra” a...