Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, C.1850-1900 AUTH-3866199 Saint Germain is among us

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Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, C.1850-1900 AUTH-3866199 Saint Germain is among usIn 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