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.
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The British administration marked out entire communities as ‘criminal’ through Criminal Tribes Act. And the policemen helped form guidelines to identify those communities.
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Before British, the areas dominated by tribals were theirs. They had their autonomy in those space where they lived. But when the British came they formalized the administrative system and brought every land to the purview of taxation. The caste based society adopted their format of ruling and started to do what British were doing, exploiting resource. Angrezon ghar chhina aur caste based society pura kapda chhine ki kosis Kar raha hei.
Before British, the areas dominated by tribals were theirs. They had their autonomy in those space where they lived. But when the British came they formalized the administrative system and brought every land to the purview of taxation. The caste based society adopted their format of ruling and started to do what British were doing, exploiting resource. Angrezon ghar chhina aur caste based society pura kapda chhine ki kosis Kar raha hei.