The criminal tribe in India before the British

@article{Piliavsky2015TheCT,
  title={The criminal tribe in India before the British},
  author={Anastasia Piliavsky},
  journal={Comparative Studies in Society and History},
  year={2015},
  volume={57},
  pages={323-354}
}
  • Anastasia Piliavsky
  • Published 2015
  • History
  • Comparative Studies in Society and History
    • This paper challenges the broad consensus in current historiography that holds the Indian stereotype of criminal tribe to be a myth of colonial making. Drawing on a selection of precolonial descriptions of robber castes—ancient legal texts and folktales; Jain, Buddhist and Brahmanic narratives; Mughal sources; and Early Modern European travel accounts—I show that the idea of castes of congenital robbers was not a British import, but instead a label of much older vintage on the subcontinent… CONTINUE READING
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