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EP 50: The Hijra under British Rule

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The History of the Hidra Community

The history of the Kojasar is really important, and there's been quite a few people have worked on that. There was a system of gurus and disciples and students and mentorship within the Hidra community. And so, in the 19th century, there is this sort of privileging of those forms of patrilineal and sort of reproductive sexuality based forms of succession and inheritance under colonial law.

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