'Criminal' tribes of Punjab : a social-anthropological inquiry / editor, Birinder Pal Singh.

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Birinder Pal Singh

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi : Routledge, 2010.Description: lix, 151 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780415551472 (hbk.)

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23 306.0954552 CRI 006712

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Summary: Focussing on seven tribes of the Punjab declared as 'criminal' by the British administration in India, this study highlights the problem of how the concepts of 'tribe' and 'criminal' are ill- and variously-defined, they constituting the most oppressed in an otherwise prosperous state.

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Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	306.0954552 CRI 006712 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		006712

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Focussing on seven tribes of the Punjab declared as 'criminal' by the British administration in India, this study highlights the problem of how the concepts of 'tribe' and 'criminal' are ill- and variously-defined, they constituting the most oppressed in an otherwise prosperous state.

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