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| | HIJRAS OF INDIA: PARADOX AND SURROGATE FAMILIES - www.ezboard.com |
 | | Hijra emasculation is "a way to both flee the sexually demanding mother and be reconciled with her," and this is somewhat personified by the mother-daughter relationship of the guru and emasculated chela. | | | This mother-daughter relationship of the guru and hijra is a fascinating one with a religious and social basis. | | | A recurring question among outsiders is why these hijras, "impotent and emasculated men, have this traditional ritual role of conferring blessings of fertility on newborn males and on newlyweds." This may be due to allusions in revered Hindu myths. |
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http://p206.ezboard.com/fikonkarfrm1.showMessage?topicID=1235.topic
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| | The Hijra, or withdrawal, is the emigration of Muhammad and his followers to the city of Medina in 622 AD. | | | This event marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar (1 AH, anno hegirae, or "in the year of the hijra"). | | | There is also an unrelated social group in India called "hijra", see hijra (India). |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Talk Hijra (India) Archive 1 |
| | Hijra (the word is Urdu for "impotent ones") are usually boys and men who were made to be eunuchs -- many of them against their will. | | | In South India, these people are called "ali" and "number 9" (the euphemistic term is "aravani", see intersex). | | | It is not correct to say that all of Hijra is a hermaphrodite, but the castrated and those who changed his gender is also included. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/T/TA/TAL/Talk_Hijra_%28India%29_Archive_1
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| | Three hijras at a muslim shrine in Pakistan! | | | In that way one might assume that today`s muslim hijra communities are the only intact survivors of medieval muslim "mukhannath" society, while at the same time having local connections to ancient hindu traditions. | | | It is derived from Urdu, the poetical language of the Indian Subcontinent`s islamic culture. |
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| | Hijra in India |
| | People pays respect to Hijras in Rajasthan, Gjarat, Panjab and other northern Indian states, as they believe that Hijras are "the messengers of Gods who bring fertility to newly-married couples" and "the prayers wishing the long life of new born children and the prosperity of his family". | | | The guru of the Hijras said "The people worships Hijras as if we were the living gods in this area. | | | Hijra in India : Rajasthan Delhi Bahchara (Gujarat) Mumbai Calcutta |
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| | Updated Witch page |
| | Hijra live in "houses" run by a guru, or spiritual leader. | | | Anne Ogborn, who became accepted as hijra in India, noted that western transsexual women tend to view their lives as a curse, while the hijra understand it as a blessing. | | | The Hindu hijra worship an aspect of the Goddess who's name translates as "Mother of the Gods", the same as the title of Cybele. |
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| | Eunuch Archive Message Boards - Hijra in India |
| | A hijra with a beautiful face is considered as an aspect to the Dera. | | | There were 15 hijras who had come there. | | | The hijras were requesting my parents to hand over me to them. |
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| | Hijra of India Research Guide |
| | Hijras- Who Are We: This book, which I looked for while doing my research, was written by the hijra community. | | | It has fantastic photographics of a hijra community in Pakistan complete with prostitution, dancing, preparation, and castration. | | | These two books are, in my opinion, the best sources you will find. |
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| | Magical Stories of the Hijras (News) Bali Lee White |
| | But as one hijra explained, "A hijra is born from the stomach of a woman, but can be counted neither among the men nor the women. | | | In one myth a hijra was on her way to a holy hilltop site, called Baba Darga in North India, and she offered to help carry a woman's baby. | | | In India, 100,000 hijra eunuchs are a caste unto themselves |
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| | The hijra community is a group based on communal religious and social orders. | | | Every person in the community has a teacher or spiritual guide who is an older, more experienced hijra, (guru). | | | Because of their complete external emasculation, Hijra genitalia look very convincing. |
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| | Mail & Guardian Online: |
| | She is a Hijra, part of south Asia's ancient and secretive community of transsexuals, hermaphrodites and eunuchs. | | | Hijras, who first emerged in 12th century Muslim courts, remain loyal to Islam and worship at dedicated Hijra shrines. | | | Parents pay them to bless their newborn sons -- fearing they may otherwise be cursed -- or hire them as wedding dancers. |
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http://mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=242778&area=/breaking_news/...
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| | Hijras - Who We Are |
| | Hijras worship a Mother Goddess who demands infertility of her followers. | | | Why do they want to be Hijras, how do they live, how do they feel, what is it like to be castrated, how do they want to be addressed, what is their religion....???? | | | Note: Part of the proceeds from this book will be going to help Hijras in India. |
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http://www.china-travel-guide.com/hijras.htm
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| | With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India |
| | Hijras are men who sacrifice their genitalia to a goddess in return for the power to confer fertility on newlyweds and newborn children, a ritual role they are respected for, at the same time as they are stigmatized for their ambiguous sexuality. | | | The subjects of this study are hijras or the "third sex" of India--individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane. | | | With Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. |
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| | Hijra in India : Rajasthan Delhi Bahchara (Gujarat) Mumbai Calcutta Book Profile Hijra in India It was 20 years ago when I came... | | | The Hijra calendar, the normative starting point of Islamic history... | | | and Delhi; there are also Hijra communities in southern India, Pakistan,... |
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| | Two Comments Made re Hijra on the ANDROGYNE List |
| | But to be fully empowered by the Goddess as a Hijra, one must undergo the surgery they call, "Nirvan", by a Hijra midwife after following a yogic path of preparation. | | | They're mad because their nuts and dick was cut off when they were little boys and once a Hindu boy is unable to marry, his family turns against him. | | | I am adding some comments about the HIJRA traditions in India. |
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http://androgyne.0catch.com/hijra1.htm
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| | Calendars and their History |
| | In addition, Muslims in India used the Islamic calendar, and the Indian government used the Gregorian calendar for administrative purposes. | | | In the mid-1950s, when the Calendar Reform Committee made its survey, there were about 30 calendars in use for setting religious festivals for Hindus, Buddhists, and Jainists. | | | The Gregorian calendar continues in use for administrative purposes, and holidays are still determined according to regional, religious, and ethnic traditions (Chatterjee, 1987). |
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| | Balia’s married eunuchs have no fairy tale life! .:. NewKerala - India's Top Online Newspaper |
| | Known as “hijras”, in popular parlance, these eunuchs are basically males castrated at puberty but are considered as “she” and have been for centuries, ridiculed and reviled for their different sexuality. | | | Sunita represents the new brand of married eunuchs in India who have found husbands in unscrupulous, pleasure seeking men, who promise them love, respect and acceptance but abandon them often within weeks of marriage. | | | Because I am a hijra (eunuch) the world does not want that a man can look after me respectfully. |
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| | A note about Hijras... |
| | I live with another western transsexual, Anne Osborn, who has travelled to India on three occasions to live for months amoung the hirja. | | | and the lies commonly told by those who dislike them pass into the realm of "everyone knows" that hijras kidnap boys and cut their dicks off!!! | | | I should tell you that I am a western transsexual. |
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| | Part Two, Transsexual Priestesses, Sexuality and the Goddess |
| | Despite their expressed wishes, despite the way they live their lives, almost all accounts today of the Hijra of India refer to them as eunuchs or "neither male nor female", a sort of third sex. | | | It conjures up visions of large castrated male harem guards and castrati singers of Middle Ages which falls within the true meaning of the word but is widely applied to the transsexual priestesses of the Goddess, which is misleading at least, and at any rate, insulting in the extreme to those ancient transsexual women. | | | If you observe their lives, they live and function (as much as they are allowed to) as women. |
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| | The Rise of Eunuchs in Hindi Films |
| | The hijras in the film make fun of him because he avoids them, thinking that by living with ordinary people he can forget the gender-deviation of his existence. | | | Ruth Lor Malloy, a Chinese Canadian who was in Mumbai recently, helped publish a 32-page booklet on hijras authored by Meena Balaji and other eunuchs of India. | | | The book is called Hijras: Who We Are. |
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| | The Green Man: Hijra of India |
| | Prior to the British occupation of India they were highly regarded in society and were believed to have supernatural powers to bless and curse. | | | They dress as women but are regarded with the Indian culture as neither men nor women. | | | i am very muck like to make with hijras. |
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| | With Respect to Sex - Charting Hijra Identity in Hyderabad, India - Books - book sales |
| | With Respect to Sex: Charting Hijra Identity in Hyderabad, India. | | | and more for With Respect to Sex - Charting Hijra Identity in Hyderabad, India. | | | With Respect to Sex - Charting Hijra Identity in Hyderabad, India - Books - book sales |
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| | Transsexual Sex Reassignment Surgery (male to female) |
| | Most Hijra live out their lives as women with other Hijra in "family groups", earning an existance by performing in traditional ceremonies at weddings and childbirths. | | | Although shrouded in caste secrecy and mystery for centuries, the underlying condition that compels young teenagers to become Hijra is clearly transsexualism: Says Dhanam, the leader of a Hijra family (a Hijra 'Guru'): | | | Because of their complete external emasculation, Hijra genitalia and pelvic regions look very "girly", and many men in India greatly enjoy lovemaking with them. |
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| | Khatola Tribune » Indian Cinderella — Hijra marries Air India pilot |
| | Sort of a tangled web, perhaps — there are two boyhood sweethearts, and then one of them has a change of sex, but they are marrying anyway. | | | As they say in desi matrimonials — sex no bar. | | | After contesting an election against Advani, the mascot of Indian masculinity, a change of pace for “Sonia” the hijra — she (ToI insists on “he”) is marrying an Air India pilot (and childhood sweetheart). |
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| | Who knows, we might actually see this headline in the Times of India. | | | "Man from Matunga" lives in Mumbai, India and expresses his angst and pleasures through words | | | Shabnam Mausi, a eunuch, recently won a by-election to the Madhya Pradesh State assembly from Sohagpur. |
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| | Maldives culture, society, history, translations and politics, news |
| | The Maldives government was paid to allow these shortwave broadcasts which were intended for India and Sri Lanka as well as Maldives. | | | Ships came with varieties of merchandise from Acheh, Sri Lanka, southern India, Hindustan and other places. | | | Maldives now has a population of almost 350,000, which means more than 10% of the population of the country has experienced torture during Gayyoom's presidency. |
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| | BBC - BBC THREE - India's Ladyboys |
| | Meet some of the people and places featured in the programme as they make their journey towards the largest ladyboy (hijra) festival in India. | | | Have your say about BBC Three shows, and see what other people think |
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| | Rediff On The NeT: Eunuchs cry for justice |
| | And, finally, that the hijra gurus be booked, and brought to justice, for their heinous crimes. | | | Simultaneously, the All India Hijra Kalyan Sabha has sent an SOS to the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government at the Centre, demanding that the government move to ameliorate the miserable conditions under which they exist. | | | Alleging that this empire is under the control of a few hijra gurus, the petition says that eunuchs who grow old and whose earning ability is thereby lessened are then dumped, left to die on the streets. |
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| | CONTENTS - Summer 2001 |
| | Hijras and the Politics of Empowerment in Contemporary India | | | For India to continue its path to become an important regional power, Schaffer asserts that India needs to focus on improving the efficiency of and combating corruption in its bureaucracy. | | | In this article, Arabinda Acharya examines the evolving Indo-Chinese relations in the context of the continual rivalry between India and Pakistan and the improving relations between the US and India. |
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http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~asiactr/haq/200103
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| | KeepMedia Newsweek: A Union of Eunuchs |
| | Still, Rath was where India's eunuchs, or hijra s, were holding their annual convention. | | | Indian newspapers had said that the hijra community was using the convention to kick-start its own political party-and start a new career path for their members. | | | This was not the sort of journey I'd have chosen to make while five months pregnant. |
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| | Intersections: Review: Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations |
| | With Gender Diversity, Nanda has combined her interests to produce an undergraduate-oriented text which describes gender variance (Nanda's preferred term) in seven 'cultures': Native America; Polynesia; India; Brazil; Thailand; the Philippines; and Euro-America. | | | The book she wrote based on her research was one of the earliest to appear about transgenderism in a non-Western context. | | | Serena Nanda, an American cultural anthropologist, is well known for her pioneering ethnographic work with the hijra of India. |
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| | The fairest of them all - Sepia Mutiny |
| | The fairest of them all - Sepia Mutiny | | | As you point out, the pageant is open to those who are male or pre-op, not post-op. | | | India's hijra community always provides stiff competition, and this year it duct-taped the traditional cross-dressing powers into submission. |
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| | Intersex Community Forums Bodies Like Ours - Eunuchs in India |
| | The Hijra are a caste of transsexual, transgendered, eunuch, and/or intersexed people who have exsisted as a group for thousands of years. | | | The local Hijra have adopted her as one of their own and she's learned a lot about them, and how intersexed people are treated in India. | | | An odd ruling affecting eunuchs in India, most of whom consider themselves women, but were just ruled to be legally male. |
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| | CNN.com - Eunuch runs for mayorship of Indian town - November 17, 2000 |
| | Eunuchs, known as "hijra," are men who were castrated at puberty. | | | Devi has been joined in her campaign by a fellow eunuch who won a by-election earlier this year to become a member of the legislative assembly in neighboring Madhya Pradesh. | | | There are no official estimates of India's hijra population, but they are said to number around 500,000. |
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| | Science Fair Projects - Atypical gender role |
| | Hijra: A neutered male person whose gender identity is neither masculine nor feminine, whose gender role includes special clothing that identifies "him" as a hijra, and whose gender role includes a special place in society and special occupations. | | | Xanith (pronounced hanith): The gynecomimetic partner in a homosexual relationship, who may retain his public status as a man, despite his departure in dress and behavior from a socio-normal male role. |
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http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Atypical_gender_roles
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| | Society: Religion: Islam - Open Site |
| | In 60 Hijra, Imam Hussain[as] set his journey to Karbala, Iraq, in response to Yazeed's assasination attempt on the Imam[as], after he refused to give bayyah to Yazeed. |
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| | LECTURE OUTLINE |
| | Example I – Serena Nanda’s work on the Hijra of India (see class discussion notes) | | | In-class discussion about sexual and gender variability (get notes from fellow students). | | | (see class discussion notes) in India and U.S. Comparing Gender Variability in India and the U.S. Example I – Hijras (ritualized 3 |
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http://astro.temple.edu/~kroark/widenerwk3.htm
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| | Pay Safe India |
| | The Catholic Syrian Bank india abroad with india abroad Office in Kerala, India, which india abroad later years acquired as an A class status as scheduled bank, is now also a major dealer of foreign exchange. | | | Welcome to Embassy of India india abroad india abroad of India in the UAE | | | Jafariyanews is largest shia news network all around the india abroad which is daily updated, every info about india abroad is available here |
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| | Islamic Web Sites - Resources |
| | Hijra moon calendar (detailed discussion of various issues) |
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| | List of India-related topics: Information From Answers.com |
| | This is so that those interested in the subject can monitor changes to the pages by clicking on Related changes in the sidebar. | | | Family names - Fatehpur - Fatehpur Sikri - First Anglo-Maratha War - First Anglo-Mysore War - First Anglo-Sikh War - First battle of Panipat - Flag of India - Foreign relations of India - Foreign relations of Oman - Fourth Anglo-Mysore War - French East India Company - French India - Further reading on India | | | 2002 Gujarat violence - 2005 in India (previous years) - 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake in India - 2010 Commonwealth Games |
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| | Hijra (La India) |
| | El Hijras de la guía de la investigación de la India | | | En cultura india, un hijra es persona que pertenece a un grupo que a menudo se llame "el tercer sexo" (o género) de la India. | | | Por algunos informes, de vez en cuando hay también la gente que pertenece a ningunas de estas categorías que se fuercen para convertirse en hijras, realizando la castración cruda/ritual genital de la cirugía de la reasignación en ellas sin su consentimiento. |
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http://www.yotor.net/wiki/es/hi/Hijra%20%28La%20India%29.htm
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| | Bockrath (2003) Bhartia Hijro Ka Dharma: The Code of India's Hijra. |
| | To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box. | | | Bockrath (2003) Bhartia Hijro Ka Dharma: The Code of India's Hijra. | | | Bhartia Hijro Ka Dharma: The Code of India's Hijra. |
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