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Artola, George T. “The Transvestite In Sanskrit Story and Dharma.” Annals Of Oriental Research (1975): 57-68.
Basham, A.L. The Wonder That Was India. New York: Grove Press Inc., 1054.
Bedi, Rahula. “The Bizarre and Dangerous World of India’s Eunuchs.”
Vancouver Sun (April 16, 1994): B1.
Bolin, Anne. In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage. Massachusetts: Bergin and Garvey Publishers, Inc., 1988.
Carstairs, George Morrison. “Hinjra and Jiryan: Two Derivatives of Hindu
Attitudes to Sexuality.” British Journal of Medical Psychology 29
(1956):
128-138.
________. The Twice-Born: A Study of a Community of High-Caste Hindus. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1967.
Chandra, Abhik Kumar. “India’s Reviled Eunuchs Take to The Election
Soapbox.” Agence France-Presse (February 16,2000).
Cohen, Lawrence. ”The Pleasures of Castration: The Postoperative Status of Hijras, Jankhas and Academics.” In Sexual nature, Sexual Culture, ed. Paul R. Abramson and Steven D. Pinkerton, 276-304. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. and Sister Nivita. Myths of the Hindus and
Buddhists. New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1967.
Freeman, James. Untouchable: An Indian Life History. Stanford:
Stanford
University Press. 1979.
Goldman, Robert P. “Transsexualism, Gender, and Anxiety in Traditional India.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 113, no.3 (July – Sept., 1993): 374- 401.
Haber, Daniel B. “The Men Who Would Be Drag Queens.” Inter Press Service (March 28, 1997).
Hall, Kira. “’Go Suck Your Husbands Sugarcane!’: Hijras and the Use of Sexual Insult.” In Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, ed. Anna Livia and Kira Hall, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Hilfebeutel, Alf. “Siva, The Goddess, and The Disguises of The Pandavas and Draupadi.” History of Religions 20 n.1-2 (1980): 147-174.
Jaffrey, Zia. The Invisibles: A Tale of The Eunuchs of India. New York: Vintage Books, Random House Inc., 1996.
Maarriott, McKim. “The Feast of Love” In Krishna: Myths, Rites and Attitudes, ed. Milton Singer, 200-212. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.
McGirk, Jan. “Street Life: Delhi- The Boy Who Ran Away to Join the Eunuchs.” The Independent (October 20, 1998) 14.
Mackay, Judith. The Penguin Atlas of Human Sexual Behavior. New
York:
Penguin Putnam Inc., 2000.
Nanda, Serena. Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India. Belmont:
Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1999.
O”Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Opler, Morris E. “The Hijara (Hermaphrodites) of India and Indian National Character: A Rejoinder.” American Anthropologist 62 (1960): 505-511.
________. “Further Comparative Notes on The Hijara of India.” American
Anthropologist 63 (1961): 1331-1332.
Patel, Geeta. “Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender.” College Literature 24 (1997): 133-50.
Pimplay, P.N. and S.K. Sharma. “Hijaras: A Study of an Atypical Role.” Avadh Journal of Social Sciences 2 (1985) 42-50.
Preston, Laurence W. “A Right to Exist: Eunuchs and the State in Nineteen- Century India.” Modern Asian Studies 21 no.2 (1987) 371-387.
Reyk, Nicola. “Feature: Hijras-India’s ‘Third Sex’ Trigger Fear and Fascination” Deutsche Press-Agentur (September 5,2000).
Shah, A.M. “A Note on the Hijadas of Gujarat.” American Anthropologist 61 (1961): 1325-1220.
Sharma, Satish Kumar. “Eunuchs: Past and Present.” The Eastern
Anthropologist 37, no.4 (1984): 381-389.
________. Hijras: The Labelled Deviants. New Delhi: Gian Publishing House, 1989.
Sweet, Michael J. and Leonard Zwilling. “The First Medicalization: The
Taxonomy and Etiology of Queerness in Classical Indian Medicine.”
Journal of the History of Sexuality 3, no.4 (1993) 590-607.
Varam, Dev. “Indian Eunuchs Seek Sympathy Through Book.” Reuters
(February 14, 1997).
“In From the Outside: India’s Long Mistreated Eunuchs are Teaming Up to
Demand Equal Rights and Better Health Care.” Time International 156
(September 18, 2000) 25.
“Eunuchs Make Ideal Politicians, Says India’s First Eunuch Deputy.” Deutsche Press-Agentur (March 7, 2000).
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