Sarah Gandee
Biographic Data
| ID | 1265957 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Gandee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Gandee |
| SIGNATURE | GANDEE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Historical Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
(Re-)Defining Disadvantage
In contemporary India, the arena of identity politics and ‘reservations’ is highly contentious, with groups clamouring for official recognition within the categories of Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe or Other Backward Class. This article sheds new light on the wider processes of inclusion and exclusion among these categories by delineating the contested position of the so-called ‘criminal tribes’ within this framework. Until the 1920s, these cr…
Introduction
This introduction outlines some of the key historiographical debates concerning caste, ‘tribe’ and criminality, and their relationship to the modern state, in South Asia. Although these social categories have long, complex and often inter-related histories rooted in indigenous and precolonial ideas and institutions, they emerged most forcefully as categories of governance in the legal-political system of the colonial and postcolonial states. Thes…
Settling the Citizen, Settling the Nomad
This article explores the politics of civic engagement during India's long decolonization between 1938 and 1952 for communities-the erstwhile 'criminal tribes'-whose lifestyles were complicated by controls on their movement before and shortly following India's independence. It argues that their varied and contingent strategies of mobilization increasingly identified community particularities-notably, their marking as 'criminals' and a history of …
Criminalizing the Criminal Tribe
This article explores the postcolonial criminalization of a so-called criminal tribe in the borderlands of East Punjab in the years following independence and Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. A small proportion of the Rai Sikhs had been notified by the colonial government under the draconian Criminal Tribes Act (1871), which marked out certain communities as criminal and subjected them to excessive punitive measures. In the years aft…
Settling the Citizen, Settling the Nomad
This article explores the politics of civic engagement during India's long decolonization between 1938 and 1952 for communities-the erstwhile 'criminal tribes'-whose lifestyles were complicated by controls on their movement before and shortly following India's independence. It argues that their varied and contingent strategies of mobilization increasingly identified community particularities-notably, their marking as 'criminals' and a history of …
Introduction
This introduction outlines some of the key historiographical debates concerning caste, ‘tribe’ and criminality, and their relationship to the modern state, in South Asia. Although these social categories have long, complex and often inter-related histories rooted in indigenous and precolonial ideas and institutions, they emerged most forcefully as categories of governance in the legal-political system of the colonial and postcolonial states. Thes…
(Re-)Defining Disadvantage
In contemporary India, the arena of identity politics and ‘reservations’ is highly contentious, with groups clamouring for official recognition within the categories of Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe or Other Backward Class. This article sheds new light on the wider processes of inclusion and exclusion among these categories by delineating the contested position of the so-called ‘criminal tribes’ within this framework. Until the 1920s, these cr…
Criminalizing the Criminal Tribe
This article explores the postcolonial criminalization of a so-called criminal tribe in the borderlands of East Punjab in the years following independence and Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. A small proportion of the Rai Sikhs had been notified by the colonial government under the draconian Criminal Tribes Act (1871), which marked out certain communities as criminal and subjected them to excessive punitive measures. In the years aft…
(Re-)Defining Disadvantage
In contemporary India, the arena of identity politics and ‘reservations’ is highly contentious, with groups clamouring for official recognition within the categories of Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe or Other Backward Class. This article sheds new light on the wider processes of inclusion and exclusion among these categories by delineating the contested position of the so-called ‘criminal tribes’ within this framework. Until the 1920s, these cr…
Introduction
This introduction outlines some of the key historiographical debates concerning caste, ‘tribe’ and criminality, and their relationship to the modern state, in South Asia. Although these social categories have long, complex and often inter-related histories rooted in indigenous and precolonial ideas and institutions, they emerged most forcefully as categories of governance in the legal-political system of the colonial and postcolonial states. Thes…
Settling the Citizen, Settling the Nomad
This article explores the politics of civic engagement during India's long decolonization between 1938 and 1952 for communities-the erstwhile 'criminal tribes'-whose lifestyles were complicated by controls on their movement before and shortly following India's independence. It argues that their varied and contingent strategies of mobilization increasingly identified community particularities-notably, their marking as 'criminals' and a history of …
Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · History (3 works)