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Sulekha’s use of the masculine in the above examples seems to be influenced by a local understanding of home ownership as a man’s activity. When she refers to herself as a malkin in excerpt (12), she is talking about herself not as a homeowner, as in these two pas-sages, but as a member of the hijra lineage. The issue of home ownership becomes especially salient in example (20), when she explains that even though she can work and collect wages in a dis-trict designated as belonging to another hijra community, she can never buy a house in a district other than her own.
First-person masculine verb forms, which occur much morę rarely in the hijras’ conversations than do third-person forms, occa-sionally surface in highly emphatic moments. Sulekha, when overtly contradicting claims madę by Megha, adds extra weight to her words by speaking in the masculine first person, as in examples (21) and (22). Megha had stated in an earlier conversation that hijras are asexual and lead ascetic lifestyles; Sulekha, wanting to give us what she perceives to be a morę accurate account of the hijra community, refutes all of Megha’s assertions by speaking in the masculine:
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