2019
DOI: 10.1017/9781108592208
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Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

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“…. Hijras' (Hinchy, 2019)-viewed under a Western gaze as a deviant form of gender/sex expression-through both formal law (such as the Indian Penal Code and the subsequent Criminal Tribes Act) and discursive practices around morality and perversion, which sought to stigmatize indigenous bodies and sexual practices (Hinchy, 2019). Similarly, the so-called "third gender" aboriginal people of Andean indigenous culture were labelled as transgressive "sodomites" (Horswell, 2005).…”
Section: Gender/sex Binary As Colonial Projectmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…. Hijras' (Hinchy, 2019)-viewed under a Western gaze as a deviant form of gender/sex expression-through both formal law (such as the Indian Penal Code and the subsequent Criminal Tribes Act) and discursive practices around morality and perversion, which sought to stigmatize indigenous bodies and sexual practices (Hinchy, 2019). Similarly, the so-called "third gender" aboriginal people of Andean indigenous culture were labelled as transgressive "sodomites" (Horswell, 2005).…”
Section: Gender/sex Binary As Colonial Projectmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The NWPO's aim was to produce industrious families. 70 However, the Sansiya project attempted to redraw the relationship between families, social groups and space in much more drastic ways than had been attempted in groups confined to their own villages.…”
Section: Space Family and Marriagementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Illustrating the kind of strategies that the secular age affords, she writes regarding a case of kidnapping against hijras: 'Drummond appears to have lowered the age of one of the minors to emphasize his child status, claiming that the child was "certainly under 10", even though his mother insisted he was older'. 17 Yet despite these machinations, not everybody shared the anxieties that hijras allegedly provoked. Concerning the inclusion of hijras in the Criminal Tribes Act, Hinchy notes:…”
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“…In nineteen districts, however, 'the law seems to have been carefully attended to'. 18 While such uneven, fractured implementation is characteristic of colonial policing, I would also venture to guess that it is equally the result of an incomplete picturing or indexing of sexuality -or at least of British colonial sexuality -an insight that psychoanalysis has given us. 19 While the bawdy performances, beggary, vagrancy and buggery polluted the public spaces and provoked the ire of the colonial officers, Hinchy points out that there was a 'variety of occupations among registered people, including: renting out houses or shops; animal husbandry; tenant farming; work as agricultural labourers; shopkeeping; itinerant petty trading; weaving and tailoring and domestic work'.…”
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