Governing gender and sexuality in colonial India : (Record no. 197)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 1108716881 (pbk.)
International Standard Book Number 9781108716888 (pbk.)
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System control number (OCoLC)1139146114
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Classification number HQ77.965.I4
Item number H56 2020
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hinchy, Jessica.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Governing gender and sexuality in colonial India :
Remainder of title the hijra, c.1850-1900 /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Jessica Hinchy.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st pbk. ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Cambridge University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2020.
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Extent xvii, 305 p.
Other physical details ill. (black and white)
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element India.
Title of a work Criminal Tribes Act of 1871.
650 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Transgender people
Geographic subdivision India
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 19th century.
Topical term or geographic name entry element Transgender people
General subdivision Legal status, laws, etc.
Geographic subdivision India.
651 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name India
General subdivision Politics and government
Chronological subdivision 1857-1919.
Geographic name India
General subdivision Social conditions
Chronological subdivision 19th century.
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