Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India

<i>Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India</i> provides a detailed overview of the phenomenon of the “criminal tribe” in India from the early days of colonial rule to the present. <ul> <li>Traces and analyzes historical debates in historiography, anthropology and criminology</li> <li>Argues that crime in the colonial context is used as much to control subject populations as to define morally repugnant behavior</li> <li>Explores how crime evolved as the foil of political legitimacy under military</li> <li>Examines the popular movement that has arisen to reverse the discrimination against the millions of people laboring under the stigma of criminal inheritance, producing a radical culture that contests stereotypes to reclaim their humanity</li> </ul>