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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 March 2021
Jessica Hinchy is an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research explores histories of gender, sexuality, households, and family in northern India. Her 2019 book Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India (Cambridge University Press) examined the colonial criminalisation of the Hijra community.
Girija Joshi is a lecturer at the Leiden Institute for History. Her recently submitted doctoral dissertation explores the themes of sedentarisation, subsistence, and community formation in southeastern Panjab.
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