Branded by Law: Looking at India’s Denotified Tribes

The author has spent many years travelling to meet with and talk to India’s once-criminal—now denotified—tribes all over the country. The result of his travels is Branded by Law, which examines the lives of these people and is an exploration of what it means to brand entire communities criminal, to live your life treated as a criminal simply because you are born in that community. The book also traces the historical and political roots of why certain tribes were notified ‘criminal tribes’ by the British, the constitutional attempts to denotify them after Independence and the current socio-political impacts. The core spirit of the book, however, is really an examination of prejudice.