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    The book analyzes India's De-Notified Tribes from a more human perspective, exploring their history and the roots of the prejudice against them. It examines how colonial and post-independence Indian governments have systematically oppressed these communities through policies and laws. The author argues that prejudice has degraded these communities and branded them as criminals, forcing them from their traditional livelihoods. While some laws were repealed, the book shows that government reforms have proven ineffective, leaving these substantial populations both economically deprived and stigmatized. It calls for a reset of India's mindset toward these long-forgotten communities beyond just legal changes.

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    The book analyzes India's De-Notified Tribes from a more human perspective, exploring their history and the roots of the prejudice against them. It examines how colonial and post-independence Indian governments have systematically oppressed these communities through policies and laws. The author argues that prejudice has degraded these communities and branded them as criminals, forcing them from their traditional livelihoods. While some laws were repealed, the book shows that government reforms have proven ineffective, leaving these substantial populations both economically deprived and stigmatized. It calls for a reset of India's mindset toward these long-forgotten communities beyond just legal changes.

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    The book analyzes India's De-Notified Tribes from a more human perspective, exploring their history and the roots of the prejudice against them. It examines how colonial and post-independence Indian governments have systematically oppressed these communities through policies and laws. The author argues that prejudice has degraded these communities and branded them as criminals, forcing them from their traditional livelihoods. While some laws were repealed, the book shows that government reforms have proven ineffective, leaving these substantial populations both economically deprived and stigmatized. It calls for a reset of India's mindset toward these long-forgotten communities beyond just legal changes.

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    The book analyzes India's De-Notified Tribes from a more human perspective, exploring their history and the roots of the prejudice against them. It examines how colonial and post-independence Indian governments have systematically oppressed these communities through policies and laws. The author argues that prejudice has degraded these communities and branded them as criminals, forcing them from their traditional livelihoods. While some laws were repealed, the book shows that government reforms have proven ineffective, leaving these substantial populations both economically deprived and stigmatized. It calls for a reset of India's mindset toward these long-forgotten communities beyond just legal changes.

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    Branded by Law: Dilip DSouza

    Essentially an in-depth analysis of Indias De-Notified Tribes, this book is a more


    human approach to the subject. It raises various issues pertaining to the people of
    the De-Notified Communities; the so called Criminal Community. It explores their
    history from the time of their origin to the present date situation. It presents the
    stories that lead you to the inner perspective of being an individual identified as
    Born Criminal, of knowing what it feels like.
    The book well-narrated and presents first person experiences of DNT communities
    facing prejudice from both society and government. Where the book stands out is
    when it looks beyond just the present issues and tries to unfold all the deep rooted
    factors that contribute the situation of these communities,; meaning their alleged
    Criminality and inquires about the roots of the same. It also examines various
    laws and acts related to these communities both before and after the national
    independence in 1947. Doing all of this, the author principally wants to drive the
    idea of undue prejudice against these people home in us.
    He, the author, argues about the degradation of these communities as a function of
    the held prejudices against these people, which have not only forced them to leave
    their traditional methods of survival and made victims out of ordinary people, but
    have also gone a step further and branded them as professional and born criminals.
    The book however is well-rounded in its presentation. Time and again he, the
    author, examines various policies and schemes employed by the government for
    these communities, inquiring about their effectiveness on ground. He shows that
    since independence, government has tried to provide help in many forms, really to
    bring reforms in the living conditions of these communities, and how all has proven
    futile and a waste. The analysis is comprehensive in that, it ranges from the first
    ever law in 1871 to today.
    At a national level, the DNTs, De-Notified Tribes, are a substantial populous of the
    national community; not only economically deprived but also stigmatized in their
    ways of living, worsening the situation further. There has been left no stone
    unturned by the author in the process of exploring the prejudices against these
    communities. At one end, the colonial governments efforts of systematically
    controlling these communities in the name of reforms including capturing and
    forceful admittance to the governments many reformation centers. All this was
    made possible not directly but indirectly by the colonial government when they
    provided for the local governments to be able to directly handle or mishandle
    settlements within this community. The government thought it right primarily,
    because on closer examination, they had seen a threat in these communities, a
    threat because these communities were not very much dependent on them and
    were nomadic in nature. While on the other end, the government of the
    independent India did not appear to be caring much about the horrific situations of
    these people. Committees were formed, reports submitted, reforms talked about, all
    resulting to nothing on the ground no implementational success. One faint win
    was the repealing of the Criminal Tribe Act in 1952, but not much has changed by it.

    These people still remain the forgotten people of India as a result of the persistence
    of discrimination against them primarily on the basis of their alleged criminal
    identity, as demonstrated in the book. It also documents the state institutions and
    polices indifference and negligence towards these people which all result in illegal
    detaining and torture of these people, and more oppression, all legitimized by the
    current laws against them such as the Habitual Offenders Act and others.
    In Conclusion, the book while presenting the ground realities of the people in these
    communities, is asking for a more holistic approach to attending to their discomforts
    in surviving in the Indian society. Simply repealing laws, or reforms on paper
    wouldnt help, because what is needed is a sincere reset of the mindset of the
    people of India in their dealing with these communities.

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