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EP 50: The Hijra under British Rule

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Is UNIX a Part of the Oriental Despotism Stereotype?

There's quite a lot of crossovers between what we might classify as Hindu religious practices or beliefs or narratives. And then what we might see is Islamic practices, beliefs, narratives in Hidra's sort of everyday religious lives in the present. How those crossovers work definitely does vary within India and Bangladesh and Pakistan as well as between like the post-partition nation states. I think where you see it come through very clearly is in all the child saving rhetoric that gets voiced around the Hidra community. It comes through very very very clearly.

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