Gayatri Reddy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gayatri Reddy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gayatri |
| FAMILY NAME | Reddy |
| SIGNATURE | REDDY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West State Technical University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What Can Hijras Teach Us about Governance, Gender, and Wealth
This is an illustrated social history of how hijras (a community of trans-feminine people) have long served as a linchpin in state regulations of social (dis)order in colonial and postcolonial contexts. The authors trace the social life of laws governing “unruly” communities in the Indian subcontinent, emphasizing how social regulation of gender often emerges from material regulation. Colonial constructions of the “public indecency of eunuchs” an…
Our blood is becoming white: Race, religion, and Siddi becoming in Hyderabad, India
Our blood is becoming white." This was a constant lament I heard from siddis in contemporary Hyderabad, India-third- and fourth-generation descendants of East African slaves and soldiers recruited by the local ruler or Nizam in the 1860s to form the African Cavalry Guard in his army. The article explores this siddi lament and the multivalent symbols-of color, blood, affect, belonging-latent in it. It draws on fieldwork conducted over the course o…
Paradigms of Thirdness: Analyzing the Past, Present, and Potential Futures of Gender and Sexual Meaning in India
With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India
With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India
With Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. The subjects of this study are hijras or the third sex of India-individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane. Hijras are men who sacrifice their genitalia to a goddess in return for the power to confer fertility on newlyweds and newborn children, a ritual role they are respected f…
Geographies of contagion: Hijras, Kothis, and the politics of sexual marginality in Hyderabad
Following the recognition that 'culture matters' in designing effective public health programs, this paper focuses on one refraction of culture within the so-called 'homosexual' community in India, to highlight how attention to local knowledge and its socio-economic underpinnings can impact the politics of health care. Drawing primarily on ethnographic fieldwork conducted from 1995-1997 and 2003 in the South Indian city of Hyderabad among hijras …
"Men" Who Would Be Kings: Celibacy, Emasculation, and the Re-Production of Hijras in Contemporary Indian Politics
IT was a hot summer afternoon in the south Indian city of Secunderabad , where I did my fieldwork among hijras, better known as India’s “third sex” (Nanda, 1999) or “eunuch-transvestites” (Vyas and Shingala, 1987). I was sitting near the railway station with Sujata, one of my hijra friends and talking about her future as well as the future of hijras more generally, when she said proudly, “Within this kaliyug [current cosmic period], hijras will b…
Crossing ‘lines’ of subjectivity: The negotiation of sexual identity in Hyderabad, India
(2001). Crossing 'lines' of subjectivity: The negotiation of sexual identity in Hyderabad, India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 24, Sexual sites, seminal attitudes: Sexualities, masculinites and culture in South Asia, pp. 91-101
Finger dermatoglyphics of the Bagathas of Araku Valley (A.P.), India
Finger prints of the Bagathas, a dominant endogamous tribal population of Araku Valley in Andhra Pradesh (India) were analysed. They are distributed in Araku, Paderu and Chintapalli agency areas of Visakhapatnam district of A.P. Investigations on finger prints of 235 males and 235 females reveal that loops are higher in females (57.58%) than in males (49.19%). Sex differences in the distribution of the patterns are statistically significant (X 2 …
"Men" Who Would Be Kings: Celibacy, Emasculation, and the Re-Production of Hijras in Contemporary Indian Politics
IT was a hot summer afternoon in the south Indian city of Secunderabad , where I did my fieldwork among hijras, better known as India’s “third sex” (Nanda, 1999) or “eunuch-transvestites” (Vyas and Shingala, 1987). I was sitting near the railway station with Sujata, one of my hijra friends and talking about her future as well as the future of hijras more generally, when she said proudly, “Within this kaliyug [current cosmic period], hijras will b…
Geographies of contagion: Hijras, Kothis, and the politics of sexual marginality in Hyderabad
Following the recognition that 'culture matters' in designing effective public health programs, this paper focuses on one refraction of culture within the so-called 'homosexual' community in India, to highlight how attention to local knowledge and its socio-economic underpinnings can impact the politics of health care. Drawing primarily on ethnographic fieldwork conducted from 1995-1997 and 2003 in the South Indian city of Hyderabad among hijras …
Crossing ‘lines’ of subjectivity: The negotiation of sexual identity in Hyderabad, India
(2001). Crossing 'lines' of subjectivity: The negotiation of sexual identity in Hyderabad, India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 24, Sexual sites, seminal attitudes: Sexualities, masculinites and culture in South Asia, pp. 91-101
Our blood is becoming white: Race, religion, and Siddi becoming in Hyderabad, India
Our blood is becoming white." This was a constant lament I heard from siddis in contemporary Hyderabad, India-third- and fourth-generation descendants of East African slaves and soldiers recruited by the local ruler or Nizam in the 1860s to form the African Cavalry Guard in his army. The article explores this siddi lament and the multivalent symbols-of color, blood, affect, belonging-latent in it. It draws on fieldwork conducted over the course o…
Paradigms of Thirdness: Analyzing the Past, Present, and Potential Futures of Gender and Sexual Meaning in India
Finger dermatoglyphics of the Bagathas of Araku Valley (A.P.), India
Finger prints of the Bagathas, a dominant endogamous tribal population of Araku Valley in Andhra Pradesh (India) were analysed. They are distributed in Araku, Paderu and Chintapalli agency areas of Visakhapatnam district of A.P. Investigations on finger prints of 235 males and 235 females reveal that loops are higher in females (57.58%) than in males (49.19%). Sex differences in the distribution of the patterns are statistically significant (X 2 …
Crossing ‘lines’ of subjectivity: The negotiation of sexual identity in Hyderabad, India
(2001). Crossing 'lines' of subjectivity: The negotiation of sexual identity in Hyderabad, India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 24, Sexual sites, seminal attitudes: Sexualities, masculinites and culture in South Asia, pp. 91-101
"Men" Who Would Be Kings: Celibacy, Emasculation, and the Re-Production of Hijras in Contemporary Indian Politics
IT was a hot summer afternoon in the south Indian city of Secunderabad , where I did my fieldwork among hijras, better known as India’s “third sex” (Nanda, 1999) or “eunuch-transvestites” (Vyas and Shingala, 1987). I was sitting near the railway station with Sujata, one of my hijra friends and talking about her future as well as the future of hijras more generally, when she said proudly, “Within this kaliyug [current cosmic period], hijras will b…
With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India
With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India
With Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. The subjects of this study are hijras or the third sex of India-individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane. Hijras are men who sacrifice their genitalia to a goddess in return for the power to confer fertility on newlyweds and newborn children, a ritual role they are respected f…
Geographies of contagion: Hijras, Kothis, and the politics of sexual marginality in Hyderabad
Following the recognition that 'culture matters' in designing effective public health programs, this paper focuses on one refraction of culture within the so-called 'homosexual' community in India, to highlight how attention to local knowledge and its socio-economic underpinnings can impact the politics of health care. Drawing primarily on ethnographic fieldwork conducted from 1995-1997 and 2003 in the South Indian city of Hyderabad among hijras …
Paradigms of Thirdness: Analyzing the Past, Present, and Potential Futures of Gender and Sexual Meaning in India
Our blood is becoming white: Race, religion, and Siddi becoming in Hyderabad, India
Our blood is becoming white." This was a constant lament I heard from siddis in contemporary Hyderabad, India-third- and fourth-generation descendants of East African slaves and soldiers recruited by the local ruler or Nizam in the 1860s to form the African Cavalry Guard in his army. The article explores this siddi lament and the multivalent symbols-of color, blood, affect, belonging-latent in it. It draws on fieldwork conducted over the course o…
What Can Hijras Teach Us about Governance, Gender, and Wealth
This is an illustrated social history of how hijras (a community of trans-feminine people) have long served as a linchpin in state regulations of social (dis)order in colonial and postcolonial contexts. The authors trace the social life of laws governing “unruly” communities in the Indian subcontinent, emphasizing how social regulation of gender often emerges from material regulation. Colonial constructions of the “public indecency of eunuchs” an…
Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works)