Muslim Slave System in Medieval India c16.54

c16.54

In their effort to provide means of livelihood for themselves many slave girls adopted the profession of dancing girls and prostitutes and hundreds of eunuchs, thrown out of employment, turned *bhands* and *hijras*. Prostitution is practised the world over, *hijras* are a people peculiar to India. Basically, and historically, they have come down or descended from the medieval eunuchs.