What's the Colonial Legacy of the Hidra Community?

There's a lot more research to be done on the Hidra community but also about other groups of who we might call gender non-conforming prior to really the 1850s and especially prior to 1800. Gertrude Reddy's book with respect to sex is sort of like a classic um which you know definitely people should read. Also unknown Hussein's book Beyond Emasculation on Bangladesh is really I think importantespecially for because it has been a sort of India bias within a lot of the HidRA literature. Jeff Roy and Claire Phamen who both more performance studies people and a musicologist in Jeff Roy's case and also Shana's Khan who works on Pakistan are