Bhantus were one of the 150 tribes the colonial British government had notified as ‘criminal tribes’, writes Nusrat F Jafri in 'This Land We Call Home'.
Padma Shri awardee Ganesh Devy cut through the jargon to expose how British-era laws shape modern India during the 7th annual lecture of the Vidhi Centre of Legal Policy at Delhi’s IIC.
The British administration marked out entire communities as ‘criminal’ through Criminal Tribes Act. And the policemen helped form guidelines to identify those communities.
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.
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