Contents:
The ethnographic setting;
Hijras, individuality, and izzat;
Cartographies of sex/gender;
Sacred legitimization, corporeal practice : Hindu iconography and hijra renunciation;
"We are all Musalmans now" : religious practice, positionality, and hijra/Muslim identification;
(Per)formative selves : the production of gender;
"Our people" : kinship, marriage, and the family;
Shifting contexts, fluid identities;
Crossing "lines" of subjectivity : transnational movements and gay identifications;
Conclusion.