Badhai

Adnan Hossain is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.Claire Pamment is Associate Professor of World Theatre and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, William & Mary, USA. Jeff Roy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Liberal Studies, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA.

• Series PrefaceList of Figures Foreword, Gayatri Reddy (University of Illinois, USA)AcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Adnan Hossain (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Claire Pamment (William & Mary, USA), and Jeff Roy (California State Polytechnic University, USA)1. Badhai as Dis/ability: Meaning, Context and Community in Bangladesh, Adnan Hossain (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)2. Shifting Orientations: Vadhai in Pakistan, Claire Pamment (William & Mary, USA)3. Movements Through Badhai Sonic Arrangements in India, Jeff Roy (California State Polytechnic University, USA)Further Notes on an Inconclusive Practice..., Adnan Hossain (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Claire Pamment (William & Mary, USA), and Jeff Roy (California State Polytechnic University, USA)Postscript, Kareem Khubchandani (Tufts University, USA)GlossaryNotesReferencesIndex

At once deeply grounded in ethnographic research and theoretically ambitious, this excellent volume is a remarkable attempt to centre performance as a site of worldmaking, relationality and resistance for hijra, khwaja sira, and trans communities in South Asia ... In sum, Badhai is a ground-breaking and necessary contribution to queer and trans South Asian studies and performance studies more broadly.