
EP 50: The Hijra under British Rule
Brown History Podcast
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Hidras Perform in a Different Way, Right?
In the 18th century, we know that a number of Indian states patronized the Hidra community. We also know that some states like the Maratha state gave Hidra lineages like grants of rent-free land or sometimes cash allowances as well as recognizing their right to do bad high work. And so that you know, and that gets sort of understood by the British as a right to begging, but that was recognized by some pre-colonial states. So there's all these ways in which they are the patrons of Hidras, but Hidras were also it would seem relatively socially marginal, right?And we're sometimes viewed as being sexually immoral or associated with sort
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