Since the inception of the Criminal Tribes Act in 1871, De-notified and Nomadic Tribes (DNTs) are treated like criminals. The research paper summerises major studies carried out by 'Renke commission' constituted by center to specify the economic interventions required for raising the living ...
Today the social category generally known as the denotified and nomadic tribes includes approximately 60 million people in India. WikiMatrix The Committee recommends that the State party repeal the Habitual Offenders Act and effectively rehabilitate the denotified and nomadic tribes concerned. UN-2 ...
The Denotified and Nomadic Tribes (DNTs) of India inherit the colonial legacy of the 1871 Criminal Tribes Act that labelled 191 communities in India as criminals. Despite their 'denotification' in 1952, these communities continue to be stigmatized and deprived of citizenship entitlements in ...
De-Notified and Nomadic Tribes, which were called "criminal tribes" during the colonial rule, are one of the most subjugated sections in modern India. The colonial administration enacted the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) in 1871 based on the notion of hereditary criminal class in contemporary Europe...
The tribal population in India is broadly divided into two categories, namely, forest dwelling tribes and nomadic tribes. Some of the nomadic tribes were notified as criminals as per the Criminal Tribe Act of 1871. The Ayyangar Committee report recommended repeal of the Criminal Tribe Act (CTA)...
This study focuses on the human rights situation of the indigenous people in India with emphasis on De-notified, nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes (DNTs), who are branded as "born criminals" or "habitual offenders". The study is based on secondary data collected from various sources which have...
Presently, more than 150 million invisible people are living in across the country approximately in numbers of 1500 communities probably identified as nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes with 198 listed as de-notified tribes. Kalbeliya is one such de-notified community lives in Rajasthan and popularly ...