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{{Short description|Political designation of tribes in India}} | |||
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'''Denotified Tribes''' | '''Denotified Tribes''' <ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.socialjusticehry.gov.in/list_tribes.htm | title = List Of Vimukt Jatis (Denotifiedl Tribes) and Tapriwas Jatis | publisher = Directorate of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of Haryana | access-date = 28 September 2011 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120424230957/http://www.socialjusticehry.gov.in/list_tribes.htm | archive-date = 24 April 2012 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> are the tribes in India that were listed originally under the [[Criminal Tribes Act]] of 1871,<ref>[http://www.indiatogether.org/bhasha/budhan/birth1871.htm Year of Birth - 1871: Mahasweta Devi on India's Denotified Tribes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512222640/http://indiatogether.org/bhasha/budhan/birth1871.htm |date=12 May 2014 }} by [[Mahasveta Devi]]. ''indiatogether.org.''</ref> as ''Criminal Tribes'' and "addicted to the systematic commission of non-bailable offences." Once a tribe became "notified" as criminal, all its members were required to register with the local magistrate, failing which they would be charged with a "crime" under the [[Indian Penal Code]]. | ||
The Criminal Tribes Act was repealed in 1949 and thus 'de-notified' the tribal communities.<ref>{{cite book|last=Halbar|first=B. G.|title=Lamani Economy and Society in Change: Socio-cultural Aspects of Economic Change Among the Lamani of North Karnataka |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3NUA2DYuiY8C|year=1986|publisher=Mittal Publications |page=18}}</ref> This Act, however, was replaced by a series of [[Habitual Offenders Acts]], that asked police to investigate a "suspect's" "criminal tendencies" and whether their occupation is "conducive to settled way of life." The denotified tribes were reclassified as "habitual offenders" in 1959. | The Criminal Tribes Act was repealed in 1949 and thus 'de-notified' the tribal communities.<ref>{{cite book|last=Halbar|first=B. G.|title=Lamani Economy and Society in Change: Socio-cultural Aspects of Economic Change Among the Lamani of North Karnataka |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3NUA2DYuiY8C|year=1986|publisher=Mittal Publications |page=18}}</ref> This Act, however, was replaced by a series of [[Habitual Offenders Acts]], that asked police to investigate a "suspect's" "criminal tendencies" and whether their occupation is "conducive to settled way of life." The denotified tribes were reclassified as "habitual offenders" in 1959. | ||
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==Call for repeal== | ==Call for repeal== | ||
The UN's anti-discrimination body [[Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination]] (CERD) asked India to repeal the Habitual Offenders Act (1952) and effectively rehabilitate the denotified and nomadic tribes on 9 March 2007.<ref>[http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/4972 Repeal the Habitual Offenders Act and affectively rehabilitate the denotified tribes, UN to India] ''[[Asian Tribune]]'', Mon, 19 March 2007.</ref> | The UN's anti-discrimination body [[Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination]] (CERD) asked India to repeal the Habitual Offenders Act (1952) and effectively rehabilitate the denotified and nomadic tribes on 9 March 2007.<ref>[http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/4972 Repeal the Habitual Offenders Act and affectively rehabilitate the denotified tribes, UN to India] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190320135916/http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node%2F4972 |date=20 March 2019 }} ''[[Asian Tribune]]'', Mon, 19 March 2007.</ref> | ||
==Reservations== | ==Reservations== | ||
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[[Category:Discrimination in India]] | [[Category:Discrimination in India]] | ||
[[Category:Ethnic groups in India]] | [[Category:Ethnic groups in India]] | ||
[[Category:Law | [[Category:Law of India]] | ||