Book contents
- Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India
- Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Frontispiece
- Introduction
- Part 1 Solving the ‘Eunuch Problem’
- 1 The Hijra Panic
- 2 An Ungovernable Population
- 3 Hijras and Indian Middle-Class Morality
- 4 The ‘Gradual Extirpation’ of the Hijra
- Part 2 Multiple Narratives of Hijra-hood
- Part 3 Surviving Criminalisation and Elimination
- Conclusion
- Postscript: Hijras and the State in Postcolonial South Asia
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - The ‘Gradual Extirpation’ of the Hijra
from Part 1 - Solving the ‘Eunuch Problem’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 April 2019
Book contents
- Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India
- Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Frontispiece
- Introduction
- Part 1 Solving the ‘Eunuch Problem’
- 1 The Hijra Panic
- 2 An Ungovernable Population
- 3 Hijras and Indian Middle-Class Morality
- 4 The ‘Gradual Extirpation’ of the Hijra
- Part 2 Multiple Narratives of Hijra-hood
- Part 3 Surviving Criminalisation and Elimination
- Conclusion
- Postscript: Hijras and the State in Postcolonial South Asia
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial IndiaThe <I>Hijra</I>, c.1850–1900, pp. 93 - 114Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019