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Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India: Acting Like a Thief
Contributor(s): Schwarz, Henry (Author)
ISBN: 1405120576     ISBN-13: 9781405120579
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $93.05  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - General
- History | Historiography
- Social Science | Criminology
LCCN: 2009052091
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.4" W x 9.1" (0.92 lbs) 176 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Indian
 
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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 criminology
  • Argues that crime in the colonial context is used as much to control subject populations as to define morally repugnant behavior
  • Explores how crime evolved as the foil of political legitimacy under military
  • 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