'Criminal' tribes of Punjab : a social-anthropological inquiry / editor, Birinder Pal Singh.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi : Routledge, 2010.Description: lix, 151 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780415551472 (hbk.)
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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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