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12 cze 2020 · In India, transgender persons were recognised as the ‘third gender’ in 2014. The third gender population of India is marginalised to a great extent in every sector.
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Many rose to significant positions of power under both Hindu and Muslim rulers. In 2014, it was estimated that around 3 million third gender people live in India alone. While the third gender includes a few different groups in South Asia, the most common are the hijras.
Define the hijras, a “third” gender community in India. 2. Describe the pattern and complexity of hijra kinship. 3. Explain the hijra prestige economy system. Sharmili, a twenty-four-year-old hijra from the Dakshinpuri area in New Delhi confided in me that she belongs to the Valmiki community.
The paper has examined how the social construction of gender contradicts gender diversity. There are four gender categories in Indian society: Men, women, transgender and third gender (Hijra). It has shown the distinction between transgender and third gender identity in Indian society.
The study shows that although Hijras have a sort of sanctioned and visible place in Hindu society, but in the contemporary Indian context, it is the gender nonconformity of the Hijra that has a major impact besides lack of a gender recognition, sexual expression, employment, decent housing, subsidized health‑care services, and as well as the ...
conception of the Third gender in India, questions the representation of Hijras as third sex and sufficiency of sexual politics and gender performativity as adequate bases of their identity and practices, obliterating other axis of identity such as religion, sect, kinship and blood and local moral and economic identity of “Izzat” (respect).
The hijra (eunuch/transvestite) is an institutionalized third gender role in India and the ways in which individuals and the community deal with the conflicts engendered by their sexual activity are discussed.
