The "criminal tribe" and independence : partition, decolonisation, and the state in India's Punjab, 1910s-1980s

On 14-15 August 1947, India obtained freedom from British colonial rule. For the so-called 'criminal tribes', however, freedom did not come at the midnight hour but five years later, on 31 August 1952, when the Government of India repealed the Criminal Tribes Act. Enacted by the colonial g...

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Main Author: Gandee, Sarah Eleanor
Other Authors: Gould, William ; Saha, Jonathan
Published: University of Leeds 2018
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.766392