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<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 unde

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Author

Henry Schwarz

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781444317343

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Social Science, Anthropology

Updated

2026-03-25