Yuvaa on Instagram: "#StoriesOfIndia | How did Hijras go from political advisors to state enemies? Hijra community is not something that the British Raj introduced. The history of the Hijra in India goes back nearly 4000 years. It is derived from an Arabic word “hijr” Infact The Kama Sutra which was written between 400 BCE and 300 CE already had a mention of the ‘tritiya prakriti’ which is ‘the third sex’ In epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata, Hijras appeared as blessings. Hindu society rec