From Peasant Pasts to Hindutva Futures? Some Reflections on History, Politics, and Methodology

Chaturvedi, Vinayak

doi:10.1080/00856401.2011.620553

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“…The sequelae of this labelling have included a host of social and economic handicaps as well as a long record of violence and abuse at the hands of higher caste groups and frequently state officials. More recently, there is evidence of certain denotified tribes reversing this relationship of subjection and striking out in increasingly politicized forms of organized violence ( Chaturvedi, 2011 ). As recently as 2007 the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination registered its concern ‘that the so-called denotified and nomadic tribes, which were listed for their alleged “criminal tendencies” under the former Criminal Tribes Act (1871), continue to be stigmatized under the Habitual Offenders Act (1952)’ ( UNCERD, 2007 : 1).…”

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“… 3. There is now a burgeoning academic literature on the subject. I review most of this in my book Penal Power and Colonial Rule (Brown, 2014) which, together with Chaturvedi (2011) and Schwartz (2010) will provide a comprehensive bibliography on the topic. Non-academic texts of some starkly varying quality include Bhadauria (1996), D’Souza (2001), Lalita (1995) and Singh (2010). …”

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Postcolonial penality: Liberty and repression in the shadow of independence, India c. 1947

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2016

Theoretical Criminology

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This article reports primary archival data on the colonial penal history of British India and its reconfiguration into the postcolonial Indian state. It introduces criminologists to frameworks through which postcolonial scholars have sought to make sense of the continuities and discontinuities of rule across the colonial/postcolonial divide. The article examines the postcolonial life of one example of colonial penal power, known as the criminal tribes policy, under which more than three million Indian subjects of British rule were restricted in their movements, subject to a host of administrative rules and sometimes severe punishments, sequestered in settlements and limited in access to legal redress. It illustrates how at the birth of the postcolonial Indian state, encompassing visions of a liberal, unfettered and free life guaranteed in a new Constitution and charter of Fundamental Rights, freedom for some was to prove as elusive as citizens as it had been as subjects.

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