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She is the author of Unarvum Uruvamum (Feeling and Form), the first of its kind in English from a member of the hijra community. [87] [88] She acted and directed stage plays on gender and sexuality issues in Tamil and Kannada. The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story [89] is part of the syllabus for final year students of The American College in ...
Bagoas (4th century BCE): prime minister of king Artaxerxes III of Persia, and his assassin (Bagoas is an old Persian word meaning eunuch). Bagoas, 4th century BCE: a favorite of Alexander the Great. Batis, 4th century BCE: resisted Alexander the Great at the Siege of Gaza (332 BCE). Philetaerus, 4th/3rd century BCE: founder of the Kingdom of ...
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).
An emasculated Chinese eunuch from the Qing dynasty Emasculation was performed in China on men to create palace eunuchs for the imperial court. [ 19 ] The practice dates back to the Shang dynasty (1600–1046 BC) [ 20 ] and continued up until 1924, [ 21 ] when the eunuch system was abolished by the last emperor of China, Puyi . [ 22 ]
In c.400, Augustine wrote in The Literal Meaning of Genesis that humans were created in two sexes, despite "as happens in some births, in the case of what we call androgynes". [16] Historical accounts of intersex people include the sophist and philosopher Favorinus, described as a eunuch (εὐνοῦχος) by birth.
Hijra Farsi is mainly spoken by Muslim Hijras; Hindu Hijras speak the Gupti language and its regional dialects. [4] Even though the language is not actually based on Persian (Farsi), the hijras consider the language to be related to the language of the Mughal Empire, which they associate with the origin of Hijra identity. Hijra Farsi is most ...
Many loanwords are of Persian origin; see List of English words of Persian origin, with some of the latter being in turn of Arabic or Turkic origin. In some cases words have entered the English language by multiple routes - occasionally ending up with different meanings, spellings, or pronunciations, just as with words with European etymologies.
In his article Homosexuality and Hinduism, Arvind Sharma expresses his doubt over the common English translation of words like kliba into "eunuch" as follows: "The limited practice of castration in India raises another point significant for the rest of the discussion, namely, whether rendering a word such as "kliba" as "eunuch" regularly is ...