Transgender Rose, כתבה על מנחת הטלוויזיה טרנסג'נדרית הראשונה בהודו.
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Colonialism and Criminal CastesWith Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India, by Gayatri Reddy. Published by University of Chicago Press, 2005. ISBN 0226707563. Page 26.
Venkat, Vidya (2008).
"From the shadows", Frontline (The Hindu Group) 25 (04, February 16-29).
Narrain, Siddharth (2003). "In a twilight world" . Frontline (The Hindu Group) 20 (21, October 11-24).
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"Hijras are organized into households with a hijra guru as head, into territories delimiting where each household can dance and demand money from merchants".
L Cohen, "The Pleasures of Castration: the postoperative status of hijras, jankhas and academics", in Paul R. Abramson, Steven D. Pinkerton (eds), Sexual Nature, Sexual Culture, (University of Chicago Press, 1995).
"Among thirty of my informants, only one appeared to have been born intersexed."
Serena Nanda, "Deviant careers: the hijras of India", chapter 7 in Morris Freilich, Douglas Raybeck and Joel S. Savishinsky (eds), Deviance: anthropological perspectives, (Greenwood Publishing, 1991).
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Joseph T. Bockrath, "Bhartia Hijro Ka Dharma: The Code of India's Hijra", Legal Studies Forum83 (2003).
"The most significant relationship in the hijra community is that of the guru (master, teacher) and chela (disciple)."
Serena Nanda, "The hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role", Journal of Homosexuality11 (1986): 35–54.
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Kama Sutra, Chapter IX, Of the Auparishtaka or Mouth Congress. Text online (Richard Burton translation).
"Don't call us eunuchs or Hijras or by other 'names'. We like ourselves to be called as females ... Yes we are transgendered females," says Aasha Bharathi, president of Tamil Nadu Aravanigal Association. Reported in Aravanis get a raw deal, by M. Bhaskar Sai, The News Today, November 27, 2005.
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Naz Foundation International, Briefing Paper 3: Developing community-based sexual health services for males who have sex with males in South Asia. August 1999. Paper online (Microsoft Word file).
