Dishonoured by History: "criminal Tribes" and British Colonial PolicyThis 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 criminal tribes . It also examines missionary activity especially the Salvation Army, in the Madras Presidency in the nineteenth century. |
Contents
Foreword by Mahasweta Devi vii | 1 |
Historical Developments | 27 |
Notification and Surveillance | 45 |
The Concept and Policy of Criminal | 71 |
Land Reclamation Industrial Recruitment | 98 |
From Itinerant Community to Industrial | 127 |
Historic Memory | 146 |
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Dishonoured by History: 'criminal Tribes' and British Colonial Policy Meena Radhakrishna No preview available - 2008 |
Common terms and phrases
agricultural settlements Booth Tucker British administration British India Chapter Colonial concerned Crim crime criminal kind criminal tribe members criminal tribe settlements Criminal Tribes Act CT communities CT members CT settlements CT workers Dacoity David Arnold declared Delhi discipline District Magistrate earlier England fact forced Government of India Government of Madras Guntur Guntur district gypsies headmen hereditary criminal high caste Home GO Home Judl Ibid ILTD factory Indian Economic industrial settlements itinerant communities jail Korachas Korava community Koravars labour land large number legislation London Madras administration Madras Presidency means of livelihood Meena Radhakrishna missionary Mukti Fauj nineteenth century nomadic Note notified official operation organisation plantations planters police administration political powers private enterprises provinces provisions PWL GO reason reclamation reformation registered revenue Salem salt Salvation Army settled settlers Sitanagaram Social History Review Stuartpuram settlement Studies surveillance trade village wage William Booth women workforce Yerukulas