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03148aam a2200433 i 4500 001 E9C1E0F8101A11EA8DA14E4D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191126010151 008 181114t20192019enka b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018052498 020 $a 110849255X 020 $a 9781108492553 035 $a (OCoLC)1066089120 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d ERASA $d YDX $d MBB $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ii--- 050 00 $a HQ77.965.I5 $b H56 2019 100 1 $a Hinchy, Jessica, $e author. 245 10 $a Governing gender and sexuality in colonial India : $b the Hijra, c.1850-1900 / $c Jessica Hinchy. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a xviii, 305 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The Hijra panic -- An ungovernable population -- Hijras and Indian middle class morality -- The 'gradual extirpation' of the Hijra -- The Hijra archive -- Hijra life histories -- Classifying illegible bodies, contesting colonial categories -- Policing, evading, surviving -- Saving children to eliminate Hijras -- Conclusion -- Postscript : Hijras and the state in postcolonial South Asia. 520 8 $a In 1865, the British rulers of north India resolved to bring about the gradual 'extinction' of transgender Hijras. This book, the first in-depth history of the Hijra community, illuminates the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality and the production of colonial knowledge. From the 1850s, colonial officials and middle class Indians increasingly expressed moral outrage at Hijras' feminine gender expression, sexuality, bodies and public performances. To the British, Hijras were an ungovernable population that posed a danger to colonial rule. In 1871, the colonial government passed a law that criminalised Hijras, with the explicit aim of causing Hijras' 'extermination'. But Hijras evaded police, kept on the move, broke the law and kept their cultural traditions alive. Based on extensive archival work in India and the UK, Jessica Hinchy argues that Hijras were criminalised not simply because of imported British norms, but due to a complex set of local factors, including elite Indian attitudes. 610 10 $a India. $t Criminal Tribes Act of 1871. 650 0 $a Transgender people $z India $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Transgender people $x Legal status, laws, etc. $z India. 651 0 $a India $x Politics and government $y 1857-1919. 651 0 $a India $x Social conditions $y 19th century. 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 650 7 $a Transgender people. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01765239 650 7 $a Transgender people $x Legal status, laws, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01767928 651 7 $a India. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210276 648 7 $a 1800-1919 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20200318014054.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E9C1E0F8101A11EA8DA14E4D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search