"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).
"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.
Mohosinul Karim, Hijras now a separate gender, in Dhaka Tribune, 11 novembre 2013. URL consultato l'11 novembre 2013 (archiviato dall'url originale l'11 novembre 2013).
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 (DOC) (archiviato dall'url originale il 27 dicembre 2005). (Microsoft Word file).
See, for example, various reports of Sonia Ajmeri's marriage. e.g. 'Our relationship is sacred'. URL consultato il 10 maggio 2015 (archiviato dall'url originale il 7 ottobre 2006)., despardes.com
'Trans Realities: A Legal Needs Assessment of San Francisco's Transgender Communities', Shannon Minter and Christopher Daley Archived copy (PDF), su transgenderlawcenter.org. URL consultato il 15 ottobre 2009 (archiviato dall'url originale il 28 luglio 2011).
Indian eunuchs help collect taxes, CNN via Internet Archive, 9 novembre 2006. URL consultato il 23 dicembre 2009 (archiviato dall'url originale il 1º dicembre 2006).
Kāma Sūtra, Chapter IX, Of the Auparishtaka or Mouth Congress. Text online (archiviato dall'url originale il 21 aprile 2012). (Richard Burton translation).