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Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India. Wadsworth Publishing Company. ISBN 9780534509033. Narrain, Siddharth (October 2006). "In a twilight world". Frontline. 20 (21). Archived from the original on 21 October 2006. Preston, Laurence W. (1 April 1987). "A Right to Exist: Eunuchs and the State in Nineteenth-Century India". Modern Asian Studies.
Hijras of Delhi. Hijra generally describes the self-organised spiritual and social community (from either the Hindu or Muslim religious traditions) of transgender women in North India, while in a historical sense it can also denote eunuchs in the Western sense of the word (as males who have been castrated and who serve as members of a royal or noble court).
Location of India. India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.4 billion people), [a] and the most populous democracy in the world. The Indian economy is the world's fifth largest by nominal GDP and third largest by purchasing power parity.
After interviewing and studying the hijra for many years, Serena Nanda writes in her book, Neither Man Nor Woman: The hijras of India, as follows: "There is a widespread belief in India that hijras are born intersex and are taken away by the hijra community at birth or in childhood, but I found no evidence to support this belief among the ...
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THE HAGUE -Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water which it says legally amounts to acts of genocide and extermination.
Pages in category "Hijra (South Asia)" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
[11] [page needed] After interviewing and studying the hijra for many years, Serena Nanda writes in her book Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India as follows: "There is a widespread belief in India that hijras are born hermaphrodites [intersex] and are taken away by the hijra community at birth or in childhood, but I found no evidence to ...