Localising Transgender Identity and the Politics of Assertion: An Ethnographic Study in Assam
Indian Journal of Gender Studies
Published online on February 23, 2026
Abstract
Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 26-46, February 2026.
The collective identity formation of transgender people in Assam is a comparatively new process. Organising themselves with a regional gender identity, they are drawing from, and yet differentiating themselves from, the pan-Indian hijra (transgender) ...
The collective identity formation of transgender people in Assam is a comparatively new process. Organising themselves with a regional gender identity, they are drawing from, and yet differentiating themselves from, the pan-Indian hijra (transgender) ...