Title: Karnataka’s New Devadasi Bill Ushers An Era of Legal Precarity for the Gender Diverse Jogappa Community
Published on: September 11, 2025
Published in: The Leaflet
“The Karnataka Devadasi Bill 2025, while abolishing dedication practices, reinforces cis-normativity and creates potential legal precarity for the gender-diverse Jogappa community. The result is cultural erasure and the undoing of constitutional guarantees to gender plurality,” writes Dr. Swarup Deb.
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