Contents:-
Introduction. Transgender to transperson : an overview of Indian histories of self, sex, and society -- Part I. Literature. Re-writing the subject and the self : a study of Hijra life writings -- Queer futurities in Arundhati Roy's The ministry of utmost happiness -- Indian influences and the transgender imagination in the Chinese literary classic Journey to the West -- Part II. History. Contradiction and concurrence of castration and the fertile phallus : a transgender reading of ancient Indian literature and contemporary Hijra experience -- The colonial censu(re/ses) of transbodies in nineteenth-century South Asia -- Part III. Law. Differs in dignity : shame, privacy, and law -- Time to "act" : guaranteeing full citizenship of transgender person in India -- Part IV. Health and employment. Exploring the psychosocial needs of third gender people living with HIV in Hyderabad, India -- Employability issues of transgender individuals in Gujarat, India : an analysis of the origin -- Part V. Transmen -- Female masculinities and women of third nature : analyzing the gender and sexual politics of identity and visibility of alternative masculinities through Indian mythologies and literary narratives -- "Families we choose" : kinship patterns among migrant transmen in Bangalore, India.