Oct 26, 2022
We sit with Jessica Hinchy, author of 'Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial
India', and discuss the Hijra community during colonial
rule. When the British ruled the subcontinent, one of their
preferred methods of control was classification; they grouped and
categorized people, reducing them inside their boxes. However, the
British were not able to define the Hijra community into a category
and that caused the British see them as threat. So what solution
did the British come up with? They decided to exterminate the Hijra
community through laws and policing.
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