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On y'day's thread about the Criminal Tribes Act, apologies for misspelling the name: it's Meena Radhakrishna.

For further reading about how the rule-of-law-loving Brits established concentration camps, forced labour and family separation in India, citations follow.

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1. Sanjay Nigam, "Disciplining and policing the 'criminals by birth', Part 1: The making of a colonial stereotype— The criminal tribes and castes of North India", (1990) 27(2) The Indian Economic and Social History Review

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

(Unfortunately paywalled).
2. Sanjay Nigam, "Disciplining and policing the'criminals by birth', Part 2: The development of a disciplinary system, 1871-1900", (1990) 27(3) The Indian Economic and Social History Review.

PDF: cscs.res.in/dataarchive/te…
3. Shail Mayaram, "Criminality or Community? Alternative Constructions of the Mev Narrative of Darya Khan", (1991) 25(1) Contributions to Indian Sociology.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

(Also paywalled).
4. Dilip D'Souza, "Branded by Law: Looking at India's Denotified Tribes." amazon.in/Branded-Law-Di…
5. Radhika Singha, A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India. (You can get this off Libgen).

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