Branded by law: Looking at India's Denotified Tribes

By:

Dilip Dsouza

Contributor(s):

DSOUZA (Dilip)

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2001.Description: xxiv,200 p. PB 20x13 cmISBN:

0141007494

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23 307.722 DSOB

Summary: This book is the result of the author's travels to meet with and talk to India's once-criminal - now denotified - tribes all over the country. Dilip D'Souza examines the lives of these people and explores what it means to brand entire communities criminal, to live your life treated as a criminal simply because you are born in that community. The book also traces the historical and political reasons certain tribes were notified 'criminal' by the British, the constitutional attempts to denotify them after Independence and their current situation.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	St Aloysius Library	Sociology	307.772 DOSB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	056788
George Fernandes Collections	St Aloysius Library	Others	307.772 DOSB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	GF01145

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This book is the result of the author's travels to meet with and talk to India's once-criminal - now denotified - tribes all over the country. Dilip D'Souza examines the lives of these people and explores what it means to brand entire communities criminal, to live your life treated as a criminal simply because you are born in that community. The book also traces the historical and political reasons certain tribes were notified 'criminal' by the British, the constitutional attempts to denotify them after Independence and their current situation.

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