Constructing the criminal tribe in colonial India : acting like a thief
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 colonial rule to the present. Traces and analyzes historical debates in historiography, anthropology and criminologyArgues that crime in the colonial context is used as much to control subject populations as to define morally repugnant behaviorExplores how crime evolved as the foil of political legitimacy under militaryExamines the popular movement that has arisen to reverse the discrimination against the millions of
1 online resource (175 p.)
9781282684096, 9786612684098, 9781444317336, 9781444317343, 1282684094, 6612684097, 1444317334, 1444317342
1303504882
Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India: Acting Like a Thief; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Placing Criminals, Displacing Thuggee Historical Representation, "Fact," and Stereotype, c. 1830-2005; 2: How to Make a Thug Recipes for Producing Crime, 1830-1910; 3: Discipline, Labor, Salvation Repression, Reform, and the Thuggee Precedent; 4: Acting Like a Thief From Aesthetics of Survival to the Politics of Liberation; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English