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Abstract This thesis situates Laxmi Narayan Tripathi’s autobiography, Me Hijra, Me Laxmi, at the intersection of religion, gender, and socio-political resistance in India. In reclaiming the spiritual symbolism of Goddess Laxmi and embodying the narrative of the hijra, Tripathi carves a transformative path from marginalization to sacred authority. Drawing on contemporary research into the lives, stigma, health, and activism of hijras and transgender women in India, this thesis interrogates how autobiography—not merely as personal testimony but as counter-discursive intervention—disrupts conventional binaries of gender and divinity. Through a multi-layered identity—Vidya, Hijra, Laxmi—Tripathi exemplifies the complex, fluid subjectivity that challenges hierarchical and exclusionary social orders. --- Chapter 1: Introduction—The Sacred and the Marginalized The figure of the hijra occupies a paradoxical position in the Indian cultural imagination: at once the bearer of ritual blessings, as