Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India provides a detailed overview of the phenomenon of the “criminal tribe” in India from the early days of col

Laws that were imposed by colonizers were as much an attempt to confirm their own identity as to control the more dangerous elements of a potentially unruly pop

This book explores how colonial policies converted itinerant groups on the one hand into a source of cheap labour and on the other into a category known as crim

Social stigmatization is a virtual curse imposed on certain Indian social sections by the colonial government as part of their contextual political strategies b

When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fund