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Hijras have a long-standing tradition in Indian culture but were stigmatized under British rule through the Criminal Tribes Act. Generally still living on the fringes of Indian society, often in groups, they have a long way to go before achieving equality only recently gaining the right to vote. In Bollywood, they are normally portrayed as comic characters, although a more sympathetic portrayal was shown in Welcome to Sajjanpur.