Badhai: Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance Across Borders in South Asia

＂This is the first book to provide an introduction to badhai that charts its performance throughout South Asia and examines its characteristics and relationship to the differing contexts of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. With its repertoire of devotional prayers, songs, dances, and comic repartee performed by socially marginalized trans feminine hijra and khwaja sira, badhai has long been recognized as vital to these communities’ identities. For students of theatre and performance, anthropology, religion, gender and cultural studies, the book illuminates an important form of performance, considering its changing status and uncertain future＂--

Adnan Hossain is Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Claire Pamment is Assistant Professor of World Theatre, William & Mary, USA.
Jeff Roy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Liberal Studies, California State Polytechnic University, USA.