Hijra's and Their Social Life in South Asia
Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (IJIR) Vol-2, Issue-4, 2016 ISSN: 2454-1362, http://www.onlinejournal.in Hijra’s and their social life in South Asia. DelliSwararao Konduru(M COM, M.A (Socio Cultural Anthropology), C G T), Research Officer, N.I.E (I C M R) Abstract :The word "hijra" is an Urdu-Hindustani right to constitutional remedies for the protection of word derived from the Semitic Arabic root hjr in its civil rights by means of writs such as habeas sense of "leaving one's tribe,"and has been corpus. Violation of these rights result in borrowed into Hindi. The Indian usage has punishments as prescribed in the Indian Penal Code traditionally been translated into English as or other special laws, subject to discretion of the "eunuch" or "hermaphrodite," judiciary. The Fundamental Rights are defined as basic human freedoms that every Indian citizen has INTRODUCTION the right to enjoy for a proper and harmonious development of personality. These rights Human rights are rights inherent to all human universally apply to all citizens, irrespective of beings, regardless of gender, nationality, place of race, place of birth, religion, caste or gender. residency, sex, ethnicity, religion, color or and Aliens (persons who are not citizens) are also other categorization. Thus, human rights are non- considered in matters like equality before law. discriminatory, meaning that all human beings are They are enforceable by the courts, subject to entitled to them and cannot be excluded from them. certain restrictions Of course, while all human beings are entitled to human rights, not all human beings experience But till to date we don‘t recognize the transgender them equally throughout the world.
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