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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830787103321

Autore

Schwarz Henry

Titolo

Constructing the criminal tribe in colonial India : acting like a thief / / Henry Schwarz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-282-68409-4

9786612684098

1-4443-1733-4

1-4443-1734-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Disciplina

364.10954/09041

Soggetti

Criminals - India

India Denotified tribes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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