{"product_id":"globalizing-through-the-vernacular-kothis-hijras-and-the-making-of-queer-and-trans-identities-in-india-paperback","title":"Globalizing through the Vernacular: Kothis, Hijras, and the Making of Queer and Trans Identities in India - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAniruddha Dutta\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis open access book analyzes the relation between dominant frameworks of LGBTQ] identity in India and non-elite, non-metropolitan communities such as kothis and hijras, a spectrum of feminine-identified people usually assigned male at birth.\u003c\/b\u003e Going beyond the well-known 'third gender' hijra community, this is the first book to study the discourses and practices of related but underrepresented groups like kothis and dhuranis in small-town and rural India while simultaneously examining their relation to and role within LGBTQ+ identity politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, the book demonstrates that non-elite groups facilitate the transregional expansion of organized queer politics and become more consolidated as gender\/sexual identities in the process. Yet, they often remain irreducible to emerging identity categories and become subordinated through hierarchies of scale and language that serve to contain such communities and related discourses as local and vernacular. The book shows how this process, in effect, denies them an equal role in transnational LGBT politics; reinforces class\/caste hierarchies within and beyond queer communities; and delegitimizes or erases articulations of gender\/sexual difference that contravene dominant understandings of gender\/sexual identity aligned with transnational capitalism, liberalism, or nationalism. Simultaneously, it reveals how non-elite communities rearticulate dominant identity categories in more equal, liberatory ways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. This book was made possible with generous support from the University of Iowa's Office of the Vice President for Research and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAniruddha Dutta\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor at University of Iowa, USA. Their essays on gender and sexual politics in India have appeared in journals such as \u003ci\u003eTransgender Studies Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, International Feminist Journal of Politics, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Gender and History.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 23, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53759178408243,"sku":"9781350382817","price":78.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/u3gHukHDdy9781350382817.webp?v=1785324713","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/globalizing-through-the-vernacular-kothis-hijras-and-the-making-of-queer-and-trans-identities-in-india-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}