Sentence examples for criminal tribe from inspiring English sources

The prosecution, portraying the defendants as part of a criminal tribe specializing in contract murders, had charged them with a series of violent crimes.

Mohammad Kalam is from the Nat community which was branded as a criminal tribe during British rule.

Degraded to criminal tribe with genetic flaws, transgenders lost their royal status and gradually were excluded from all respectable social circles.

Turning a respected community into a legally certified criminal tribe was an egregious blunder of the British colonialism (and it is hoped that Sadiq Khan, the new mayor of London, will begin to restore the full rights of transgenders at least in London municipality).

After deposing the Mughuls, and in discharging the white man's burden of civilizing the inferior races, the British colonists enacted the Criminal Tribes Act, 1871 to declare what they called Eunuchs (transgenders) a criminal tribe (among many other Indian tribes) on the theory that certain tribes were genetically criminal and must be placed under state surveillance.

The law was scrapped soon after India won independence, and the criminal tribes were formally "de-notified" in 1952.

Mostly itinerant some blue-eyed Pardhis look like they might come from the far north-west—India's "criminal tribes" have always lived on society's edge.

The surpassing example is Tamil Nadu, which reserves a total of 69% of government jobs: 1% for tribal people, 18% for dalits, 30% for the OBCs and 20% for a subset of them members of castes once categorised by British colonisers as "criminal tribes" and now known more delicately as "de-notified communities".There is little opposition to this policy in Tamil Nadu, for two reasons.

This is Boys Own Paper stuff, but with a sense of history, so Rushby sees that the real crime of the Thugees was to interrupt the cozy British opium trade, and that the British fantasy of a religious, hereditary conspiracy against order had everything to do with the infamous imperial notion of "criminal" tribes, whose smallest baby was already, in the eyes of the Raj, a malefactor.

And that nomads - who were once branded "criminal tribes" by British rulers and now hawk maps for a living at Delhi's traffic crossings - spoke a "secret" language because of the stigma attached to their community.

All designated criminal tribes under the 1871 Act suffered social degradation and persecution but transgenders were the hardest hit.