In this article, I contend that through everyday activities such as chhalla mangna and badhai, hijras, kothis, and multiply marginalized working-class and/or caste-oppressed, transgressively feminine gender-variant people, enact a stigmatized form of “radical dependence.” In contemporary India, radical enactments of dependence are frequently misidentified as “begging” and are conflated with, and criminalized as, “extortion.” However, despite the suspension and criminalization of their economic demands through “begging” bans and “extortion” allegations, multiply marginalized gender-variant people place demands of economic justice on the public in India that are redistributive and reparative in nature. I observe that by flouting social mores of “civility” and “decency,” hijras, kothis, and multiply marginalized gender-variant people in India enact a socioeconomic strategy that can be named “radical dependence.” “Radical dependence” exposes systemic marginalization, structural oppression, and abandonment and makes it possible to raise demands for distributive and reparative justice in India. This article, apart from naming “radical dependence” as an enacted strategy, also advocates for an end to the misrepresentation and criminalization of “radical dependence” as “extortion” and/or “begging,” as well as the abolition of “begging” bans. It demands economic justice for caste-oppressed and working-class hijras, kothis, and multiply marginalized gender-variant people in India.