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Hijras and the Governance of Bodies

Written by: Kotono Sagane Above is an image of Bahuchara Mata, a Hindu goddess of fertility. However, some might recognise her as the mother of hijras – a gender identity in South Asia whose birth sex is male but identify as neither male nor female. While hijras are often mistakenly described under the umbrella of […]

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Contesting ‘India’; reaching unity in diversity versus the rise of Hindu nationalism

To some extent, Indian political history can be seen as a conflict between two rival nationalist traditions. Aditya Nath’s BJP stands for a particular strand of Indian nationalism, Hindutva, which deliberately politicises Hindu identity to impose a vision of Indian nationality defined by Hinduism.