Trans People in India

A Decade after NALSA
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-00860-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 610 g

Trans People in India: A Decade after NALSA offers a multidisciplinary exploration of transgender identity and activism in India, tracing its cultural, legal, and political evolution.

The book situates trans identity within cosmogenic, mythological, and historical narratives, while mapping four waves of activism from the 1980s to the present. Drawing on personal interviews, RTI investigations, and official records, it exposes systemic gaps in policy implementation following the NALSA judgment and the Transgender Persons Act 2019. Through two original analytical frameworks—“implementational disenfranchisement” and “corrigible inequities”—it critiques bureaucratic gatekeeping and proposes actionable reforms. The work is anchored in lived experience and offers a foundational timeline of trans recognition in India, with contributions from prominent trans activists like Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, Shreegauri Sawant, A. Revathi and others in the foreword and afterword.

Trans People in India: A Decade after NALSA is ideal for students and researchers in gender studies, law, literature, sociology, public policy, and South Asian studies, especially those interested in trans- activism, identity, and institutional reform.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Choudhary, Preeti

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction

2 Making Themselves Count

3 Educational Opportunities for Transpeople Post NALSA

4 Vocational Opportunities for Transgender Persons: Provisions and Precarities

5 Social Security and Legal Protections for Transgender Persons: Provisions and Access Post- NALSA

6 Schemes and Implementation: Execution, Gaps, and Challenges Post- NALSA and the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act

7 Theorizing Transgender Realities Post NALSA and Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act- 2019: Policy Recommendations and Future Pathways

Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Preeti Choudhary is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India, and the former Project Director of a policy- making project of the Ministry of Human Resource Development and ICSSR.