List of books mentioned in episode 50, 'The Hijra Under British Rule'

Here is a list of books and texts mentioned in episode 50, ‘The Hijra Under British Rule’ by our guest, Jessica Hinchy. You can also check out her book, ‘Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850–1900’.

Historical research on Hijras:

• Arondekar, A. (2009). For the record: On sexuality and the colonial archive in India. Duke University Press. (chapter 2) https://www.dukeupress.edu/for-the-record

• Gannon, S. (2011). Exclusion as language and the language of exclusion: Tracing regimes of gender through linguistic representations of the “eunuch”. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 20(1), 1–27. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40986353

• Abbott, N. (2020). “In that One the Ālif is Missing”: Eunuchs and the politics of masculinity in early colonial North India. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 63, 73–116. https://brill.com/view/journals/jesh/63/1-2/article-p73_3.xml?language=en

• Preston, L. (1987). A right to exist: Eunuchs and the state in nineteenth-century India. Modern Asian Studies, 21(2), 371–387. https://www.jstor.org/stable/312652

Historical sources on Khwajasaras I mentioned:

• Abbott (above) https://brill.com/view/journals/jesh/63/1-2/article-p73_3.xml?language=en

• Lal, R. (2018). Harem and eunuchs: Liminality and networks of Mughal authority. In A. Hoefert, S. Tolino, & M. Mesley (Eds.), Celibate and childless men in power: Ruling eunuchs and bishops in the pre-modern world (pp. 92–108). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315566658-5/harem-eunuchs-ruby-lal

• Chatterjee, I. (1999). Gender, slavery and law in colonial India. Oxford University Press. https://www.amazon.com/Gender-Slavery-Law-Colonial-India/dp/0195659066

• Kalb, E. (2020). Slaves at the Center of Power: Eunuchs in the service of the Mughal Elite, 1556-1707. PhD dissertation. The University of Chicago. https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/people/faculty/postdoctoral-researchers/emma-kalb

Anthropological literature:

• Reddy, G. (2005). With respect to sex: Negotiating hijra identity in South Asia. Chicago University Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo3534006.html

• Hossain, A. (2021). Beyond emasculation: Pleasure and power in the making of hijra in Bangladesh. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/beyond-emasculation/26953E75F5EE938BD9F31B4719F09FDB

• Saria, V. (2021). Hijras, lovers, brothers: Surviving sex and poverty in rural India. Fordham University Press. https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823294718/hijras-lovers-brothers/

• Dutta, A. (2012). An epistemology of collusion: Hijras, kothis and the historical (Dis)continuity of gender/sexual identities in eastern India. Gender & History, 24(3), 825–849. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0424.2012.01712.x

• Pamment, C. (2019b). The hijra clap in neoliberal hands: Performing trans rights in Pakistan. TDR/The Drama Review, 63(1), 141–151. https://direct.mit.edu/dram/article-abstract/63/1%20(241)/141/8892/The-Hijra-Clap-in-Neoliberal-Hands-Performing

• Roy, J. (2019). Remapping the voice through transgender-hījṛā performance. In G. Steingo & J. Sykes (Eds.), Remapping sound studies (pp. 173–182). Duke University Press. https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2559/chapter-abstract/1361077/Remapping-the-Voice-Through-Transgender-Hij-a?redirectedFrom=fulltext

• Khan, S. (2017). Khwaja sara, hijra, and the Struggle for Rights in Pakistan. Modern Asian Studies, 51(5), 1283–1310. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/abs/khwaja-sara-hijra-and-the-struggle-for-rights-in-pakistan/DD2E1ABC36913CA6A9D3F7DCE88068DD